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Absurd (1981)
 5.3
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Absurd (1981)
Original name: Rosso sangue
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man has been driven insane by church-sanctioned scientific experimentation which also causes him to be nearly impossible to kill. He is pursued to America by a priest where he embarks upon a killing spree while the priest tries to hunt him down and kill him.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, bloody, controversial, suspense, disturbing, religious horror, terrifying, scary, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, monster, zombie, beast, living dead, murder, gory, psycho killer, violent, maniac, killer, cannibalism, murderer, death, paranormal, priest, sadism, home invasion, eye, feral man, zombie attack, creature, heavy metal, religious ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
Keyword: italian horror

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about violence, gore, murder, blood, danger, serial killer and deadly mostly in Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Absurd: Anthropophagus (1980), Beyond the Darkness (1979), Nightmare (1981), Blood Feast (1963), Halloween (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Anthropophagus (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, cannibal, blood, island, cannibalism, extreme, zombie, danger, survival, isolation, supernatural ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, controversial, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, murder, necrophilia, exhumation, zombie, exploitation, gory, two killers, anthropophagus, violent, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: southern italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nightmare (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares escapes from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, grindhouse, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, rough sex, gory, exploitation, murder, mental disorder, freak, extreme, blood, psycho killer, maniac, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: florida, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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39%
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Blood Feast (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, gory, supernatural, violence, human sacrifice, murder, zombie, exploitation, cannibalism, violent, brutality, macabre ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, miami
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Halloween (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful ...
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Plot: halloween, psychopath, serial killer, masked killer, gory, sadistic psychopath, blood, monster, torture, bullying, teenage life, holiday horror ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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Zombie (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, island, virus, zombie apocalypse, gory, apocalypse, shark, living dead, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, violence, monster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, italy, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
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Halloween II (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, psycho killer, masked killer, masked villain, male nudity, american horror, monster, stalking ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the ...
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, controversial, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rape and murder, psycho killer, serial killer, strong sexual content, psychopath, gory, extreme, danger, murder, sexual abuse, hardcore, rape ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the ...
Style: scary, sexy, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: zombie, crypt, survival horror, gory, cannibalism, supernatural, evil wins, mad scientist, blood, zombie attack, violence, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Old 37 (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two brothers intercept 911 calls in their Father's beat up old Ambulance to exact revenge on a group of careless teen drivers.
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The Orphan Killer (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister ...
Style: dark, slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, danger, siblings relations, vengeance, gory, haunted by the past, orphan, serial killer, church, violent, killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
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Halloween II (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2009
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Porkchop 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: When a Group of survivors come together in a bid for revenge they're in for a shock when they discover the masked maniac Porkchop is not alone!
Style: slasher, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Beyond (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, gory, blindness, violence, murder, macabre, zombie attack, surrealism, afterlife, monster, revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, italy, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
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Demons (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style: demonic, scary, suspense, splatter, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, demon, plague, gory, body horror, supernatural, demonic possession, death, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, west germany, germany, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 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 ⇓
31%
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Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: evil wins, truck driver, psychopath, truck, serial killer, sadistic horror, psycho killer, road rage, murder, highway, torture, sadistic killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, scary, disturbing, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, vengeance, maniac, murder, gory, american civil war, exploitation, redneck, macabre, brutality, mayor, sadism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.2
 29K
Frontier(s) (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: cannibalism, psychopath, sadistic horror, macabre, torture, survival, human monster, gory, cruelty, sadism, insanity, butcher ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.9
 5K
Raw Meat (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, detective, retro, underground horror ...
Plot: cannibal, subway, cannibalism, serial killer, exploitation, feral man, gory, railway, rape, inspector, macabre, post apocalyptic ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: scotland yard, london, europe, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Kill That Bitch (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A methodical killer is systematically slaughtering a group of women who are connected and bound by the same dark secret.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: revenge, werewolf, murderer, death, fear, torture, killer, stalker, victim, forest, murder, sadistic killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
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