Movies like The House That Screamed
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The House That Screamed (1969)
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Original name: La residencia
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are "running away" (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, gothic, surreal, disturbing, queer horror, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, bullying, missing person, humiliation, obsession, youth, society, woman in danger, lesbian, secret, serial killer, dark secret, repression, suspense, sexual repression, teenager, macabre, mental disorder, women in prison, haunted house, attic, nude, school, desire, teenage girl ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
france, south of france, europe, southern france
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Most similar movies to The House That Screamed
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, slasher, suspenseful and scary films with plots about murder, violence, serial killer, blood, deadly, gory and danger mostly in Mystery, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The House That Screamed: Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Do You Wanna Know a Secret? (2001), Prom Night (1980), The Woods (2006), What Have You Done to Solange? (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer child, evil child, island, murder, pregnancy, isolation, children, haunted by the past, stranded, manhunt, husband wife relationship, suspense ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, fictional island
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100%
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, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, stalking, vengeance, youth, woman in danger, mystery killer, dark secret, murder, violence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, bloody, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
high school, serial killer, teenager, prom, masked killer, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, prom queen, female nudity, sexual predator ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
canada
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, witch, disappearance, boarding school, forest, supernatural, isolation, macabre, school, suspense, witchcraft, police ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style:
slasher, controversial, surreal, queer horror, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, sexual perversion, murder of a nude woman, voyeur, infidelity, peeping tom, extramarital affair ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Visit similar movies
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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, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, internet, murder, panic, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop, cyberspace, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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:
sorority, serial killer, ritual, murder, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, haunted by the past, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital ...
Style:
rough, scary, suspenseful, dark, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, stripper, twists and turns, sadism, mistaken identity, supernatural, small town, mind game, race against time, disorder, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, college, murder, psychopath, night school, suspicion, pregnancy, mysterious character, riddles and clues, love affair, woman in danger, teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
boston, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, mental patient, mental institution, woman in danger, rape, youth, dangerous attraction, exploitation, violence, killer, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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It Follows similar movies
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, chainsaw, suspense, college, psychopath, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, sadistic psychopath, investigation, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, year 1942
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, usa
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25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenage life, youth, psychopath, suspense, mystery killer, friends, murder, female nudity, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, christmas, psychopath, college, stalking, supernatural, school, college life, law enforcement, frame up, who done it ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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, suspenseful, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, psychopath, woman in danger, murder, revenge, suspense, mystery killer, school, death of friend, violence against women, bullying ...
Time:
80s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
voyeurism, serial killer, female nudity, obsession, murder, transvestism, psychopath, musician, stalker, killer, violent, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, murder, psychopath, suspense, home invasion, investigation, countryside, swamp, serial murder, strangulation, stalking ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
italy, rome italy, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph ...
Style:
slasher, twisted, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, mute, suspense, murder, mute girl, psychopath, investigation, mute or deaf, who done it, woman in danger, twists and turns, nude ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, controversial, bloody, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, murder, killer, fashion model, masked killer, isolation, home invasion, murderer, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, masked killer, serial killer, train, prank, psychopath, survival, stalking, youth, uninvited guest, medical student, new year's eve ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, inheritance, violence, obsession, fear, psychopath, strangulation, insanity, investigation, squid, anger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
tokyo, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, college, university, murder, teacher, youth, friendship, violence, mental patient, mental institution, school, tragic event ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
xian
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22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
School's out, exams are over, and it's time for real life to begin. But before 12 friends from the International High School in Prague disappear to the four corners of the earth, they intend to throw the best party of their lives. The idea ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, high school, youth, swimming, murder, student life, mysterious character, nightlife, stalking, survival, party ...
Place:
europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, erotic, disturbing, perverse ...
Plot:
serial killer, tarantula, female nudity, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, cat, whodunit, obsession, suspense, killer, murderer, lust ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts ...
Style:
slasher, twist ending, splatter, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, teenager, suspense, psychopath, vengeance, revenge, twists and turns, camp, macabre, killer, high school ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
tokyo, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes related movies
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, evil, macabre, suspense, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, death, coming of age, sex, supernatural being ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, detroit, california, usa, plymouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
Style:
slasher, realistic, atmospheric, serious, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, suspense, police, prostitute, murder of a prostitute, dead prostitute, police investigation, amateur detective, law enforcement, woman in danger ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, college, obsession, soldier, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, masked villain, love affair, masked killer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, year 1944, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, blind man, murder, macabre, investigation, blindness, chase, obsession, voyeurism, stalking, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, turin italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, 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, suspenseful, serious, slasher, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, who done it, woman in danger, summer camp, siblings relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, youth, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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