Movies like Scar 2005

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Scar (2005)
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Scar (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While hiking in a remote forest, college student Zack disappears, leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom. Now a year later and plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny in a last attempt to find out what happened to his friend. Following a trail of dead bodies, each one bearing a bleeding scar, Tom and Jenny soon find themselves unraveling a string of cryptic secrets and caught in an intense struggle not only for their sanity, but their survival.Everyone in the small town seems to have a secret and when the dreaded scar suddenly appears on Jenny, the two race to find out what evil dwells in the woods.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: serial killer, murder, small town, investigation, missing person, gory, danger, amateur detective, buddies, forest, backwoods, ghost, supernatural, college, best friend, small town life, woods, maniac, seance, supernatural power, library, nightmare, cabin in the woods, sister sister relationship, video store ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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Most similar movies to Scar

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, supernatural, gory, serial killer and ghost mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Scar: Blood Descendants (2007), Bloodlines (2007), Beneath the Darkness (2011), The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007), Maneater (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blood Descendants (2007)
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, ghost, supernatural, danger, vengeance, murder, curses spells and rituals, obsessive quest, supernatural ability, deadly creature, small town ...
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95%
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Bloodlines (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The the backwoods of Kentucky, a demented family begin the process of cleaning up their "bloodline." Their family is led by Billy Bob Hackford, who in his madness abducts unsuspecting young women. As a sadistic sport, the family forces the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: inbreeding, held captive, kidnapping, kidnapper, captive, fight to the death, pregnant from rape, captivity, redneck, incest, sadistic killer, sadistic psychopath ...
Place: kentucky, southern usa
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100%
Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
Style: serious, scary, suspense, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, mortician, profanity, investigation, amateur detective, young heroes, danger, confined, youth, murder, cheerleader, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
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: gory, supernatural, forest, decapitation, murder, psychopath, serial killer, danger, imaginary, city life, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Maneater (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, small town, law enforcement, monster, danger, violence, creature feature, killer animal, creature, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Evil One (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Chicago's Englewood is a neighborhood where death is an everyday reality, but a serial killer on the loose has raised the terror quotient tenfold with the brutality of his crimes. When a newspaper photographer uncovers evidence linking the ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, independent film
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, investigation, haunted by the past, supernatural, murder, violence spree, blaxploitation, black, graphic violence, american horror, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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64%
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Knock Knock (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, small town, vengeance, who done it, danger, investigation, mortician, rivalry, ghost, high school, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Killer Instinct (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher
Plot: vengeance, ghost, supernatural, psychopath, danger, gory, haunted by the past, murder, small town life, dark and stormy night, game, sexual murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Spiker (2007)
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, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, small town, albino, danger, cheerleader, stalking, evil man, ghost, violence, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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57%
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Joshua (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, parents and children, homecoming, gory, youth, serial killer, social relations, small town life, babies and infants, small town, past, town ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, wilderness, teenage life, youth, danger, woods, curses spells and rituals, murder, nightmare, monster, mountain ...
Time: 90s
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51%
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, bleak, psychological
Plot: gory, haunted house, ghost, woman in danger, supernatural, danger, supernatural power, murder, death, escapades, rivalry, blonde ...
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48%
The Fear Chamber (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, danger, law enforcement, supernatural, violence, showdown, killer, violent content, supernatural ability, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Silent Scream (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of college students travels to the cottage of their psychology professor Barren in an isolated island as a reward of their teamwork in the research of Barren. They expect to spend the weekend with lots of sex, but a serial-killer turns their ...
Style: slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, isolation, island, winter, manipulation, danger, wilderness, college, gory, snow, exploitation, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story: When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, small town, murder, demon, danger, escapades, rivalry, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, shopping mall, investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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45%
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A Dead Calling (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young television reporter (or "investigative journalist") is attacked in her home, leading to her boyfriend being murdered. Six months later she returns to work in a smaller town, and stumbles across a house full of ghosts trying to call ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, dark, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, murder, danger, supernatural, supernatural ability, obsession, revenge, journalism, terrorism, media, small town, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Damned (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: vampire, police investigation, danger, zombie, supernatural, amateur detective, heroes, investigation, imaginary, protagonist as suspect, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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In the Woods (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
Plot: monster, woods, strong violent content, gory, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, supernatural, escapades, danger, deadly creature, ancient mystery, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Night Shadow (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: werewolf, small town, murder, monster, supernatural, hitchhiker, journalist, gory, small town life, dangerous animal, journalism, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
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44%
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Blood Legend (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find ...
Style: serious, scary, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
Plot: supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, escapades, vengeance, school, hopes, imaginary, youth, rivalry, prank ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Prison of the Dead (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: seance, zombie, prison, supernatural, ghost, danger, survival, prank, buddies, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, funeral ...
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Grotesque (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: murder, mutant, vengeance, danger, gang, chase, investigation, violence, maniac, feral man, american horror, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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41%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, gold, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, dead, revenge, local legend, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Shallow Ground (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: vengeance, investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, psychopath, murder, gory, public nudity, small town, teenage life, serial killer, supernatural ...
Time: year 2004
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41%
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The Ripper (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An old antique ring turns a college professor into a homicidal maniac when he puts it on. The ring originaly belonged to Jack the Ripper, and the Ripper's spirit possesses whoever wears it.
Style: slasher, bloody, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: jack the ripper, serial killer, teacher, stalking, demon, possession, supernatural power, supernatural, college, murder, college professor, mentally unstable ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Severed (2002)
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, danger, psychopath, supernatural, rivalry, who done it, police detective, master criminal, police investigation, private detective, bounty hunter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.9
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The Undertow (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, survival, serial killer, psychopath, backwoods, violence spree, escapades, danger, supernatural, wilderness, family in danger, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.1
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Alive or Dead (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While traveling down a desolate road, Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “Help Me” in one of the windows, and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. Maria soon finds ...
Style: slasher, realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious
Plot: woman in danger, phone sex, danger, gory, female protagonist, teenager, cannibal, killer, cannibalism, redneck, exploitation, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.7
 6K
Devour (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Friends become increasingly addicted to a video game that has an evil agenda.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, satanic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, youth, occult, psychopath, nightmare, obsession, supernatural ability, high school, teenage life, gory, tattoo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.7
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Basement Jack (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, mental institution, murder, gory, female fighter, manhunt, violence, thunderstorm, lightning, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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