Movies like Scream 1981
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Scream (1981)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
river, serial killer, ghost town, exploitation, ghost, rafting, psychopath, supernatural, prodigy, family life, confined, on the run, wilderness, buddies, sailor, death, murder, motorcyclist, small town, axe murder, supernatural horror, devastation, wrestler, chases and races, danger ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, slasher and suspenseful films with plots about deadly, danger, serial killer, murder, psychopath, gory and gore mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Scream: The Supernaturals (1986), Psycho Cop (1989), Drive In Massacre (1976), Slaughtered (2010), Severed (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise ...
Style:
spooky, slasher, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, american civil war, civil war, supernatural being, confederate soldier, murder, reincarnation, supernatural, ghost, military, battles, chaos ...
Time:
future, 19th century, 1860s
Place:
alabama, usa
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100%
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, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
murder, psychopath, serial killer, survival, youth, violence spree, violence, forest, suspense, killer, supernatural being, woman with a gun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, murder investigation, stalking, violence, police chase, loner, whodunit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, confined, captivity, death, suspense, violence, supernatural, isolation, wilderness, forest, masked killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, supernatural, rivalry, who done it, police detective, bounty hunter, police investigation, master criminal, investigation, private detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, experiment gone awry, survival, confined, supernatural, psychopath, demonic possession, escapades, isolation, murder, laboratory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.
Style:
scary, serious, rough, slasher, brutal ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, violence spree, social misfits, criminal's revenge, small town, rivalry, murder, sect, exploitation, strong violent content, nude ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, forest, uncover truth, murder, suspense, violence, redneck, pig killer, masked killer, graphic violence, serial murder, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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488
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
Style:
slasher, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
buried alive, haunted house, cult, suspense, serial killer, obsessive love, ghost town, masked man, psychopath, campaign, obsession, ghost ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, survival, confined, captivity, isolation, serial killer, blaxploitation, forest, deadly creature, youth, best friends, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Movies like Fear Street: Part Three - 1666
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, paranormal, haunted house, monster, electric chair, female nudity, psychopath, afterlife, murder, supernatural romance, zombie ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, violence, insanity, supermarket, murder, stalking, law enforcement, rivalry, woman in danger, who done it, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, haunted by the past, woman in danger, suspense, education, witnessing a crime, sexual content, graphic violence, teenager, tutor, stabbed in the groin ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a small town, a serial killer mutilates the bodies of his victims and leaves a flower on the corpses. The sheriff and his wife/deputy investigate the murders while trying to keep from alarming the citizens. They team up with an autistic hound dog ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, prodigy, love affair, mentally challenged, law enforcement, gay, autism, small town, riddles and clues, small town life, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, christmas, killer, teenager, revenge, pizza, escape, psychopath, friendship, cons and scams, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Movies like The Hills Run Red
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, vengeance, ghost, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, supernatural ability, deadly creature, obsessive quest, college, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot:
murder, halloween, serial killer, psychopath, halloween party, chaos and mayhem, destiny, sister sister relationship, bad girl, cowardice, pirate, fear ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, couples, isolation, confined, strong violent content, boarding school, suspense, youth, friends, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough
Plot:
supernatural, murder, forest, decapitation, psychopath, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, city life, legends and myths, ghost, teenager, death of protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ouija board, exploitation, bus, murder, ghost, college life, school, reincarnation, who done it, teenage life, college ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger Alice suspects to be the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, small town, supernatural, social relations, insanity, child murder, amateur detective, uncover truth, killer clown, amusement park, suspense, murder of son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
482
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed ...
Style:
slasher, tense, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, small town, albino, cheerleader, stalking, evil man, ghost, suspense, violence, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, survival, vengeance, psychopath, murder, violence, suspense, diner, small town, farm, rivalry, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, execution, child abuse, nightmare comes true, fear, supernatural, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, death row, journalism, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, looking for somewhere to sleep. She's come to the wrong place. A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, Jenny is looking for her. She's come to the right place. The Bridgeburn Hotel
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, confined, woman in danger, isolation, hotel, graphic violence, schizophrenia, gas mask, gory, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, buddies, car race, friends, graphic violence, irony, ex soldier, hillbilly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
On their way to Caba San Lucas, the cast and crew of a low-budget film get lost and come upon "La Sangre De Dios", a ghost town with a spine-tingling legend about an insane Mexican wrestler. One by one, the cast and crew are snatched, ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, rivalry, obsessive quest, survival, supernatural, deadly creature, ghost, filmmaking, vengeance, wrestling, massacre ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, serious, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fugitives, murder, psychopath, camping, stalking, backwoods, serial killer, youth, camp, insanity, suspense, rage ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
southern california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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:
college student, murder, haunted house, serial murder, brutality, serial killer, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, suspense, ghost ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Old St. Leopold's Hospital has many urban legends surrounding it, but the residents of Bridgeport all agree on one thing: tortured souls roam its abandoned halls. The mystery proves too much for a pretty young student who decides to investigate ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, psychopath, ghost, college, violence, serial killer, suspense, city life, female nudity, supernatural horror, rape and revenge, rapist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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