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Fright (1971)
 5.8
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Fright (1971)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: babysitter, psychopath, rape and revenge, serial killer, rape, macabre, mental disorder, murder, home invasion, paranoia, hostage, mentally unstable, psycho, stalker, hostage situation, mental patient, psycho killer, female protagonist, gas mask, escaped mental patient, implied rape, child in peril, vengeance, rivalry, danger ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: england
Keyword: visit, outburst, british horror

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about psychopath, murder, serial killer, blood, violence, deadly and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Fright: House on the Edge of the Park (1980), Alone in the Dark (1982), When a Stranger Calls (2006), Visiting Hours (1982), Horror House (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex (David Hess) is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, sexual, surprise ending ...
Plot: rape and revenge, rape, violence, violence against women, revenge, exploitation, gory, extreme, serial killer, cruelty, sexual assault, sexploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, babysitter, psychopath, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, maniac, danger, survival, high school student ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Visiting Hours (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
Style: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, stalking, medical, psychopath, canuxploitation, danger, murder, woman in danger, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 4.7
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Horror House (1969)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
Style: slasher, classic horror, gothic horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted, trapped in a building, monster, seance, murder, friends, estate, supernatural, danger, ghost, youth ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, danger, chase, wedding, psychopath, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, obsession, stalking, murder, photographer, mind game, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, woman in danger, riddles and clues, female nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: los angeles, vietnam, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Last Showing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, obsession, vengeance, murder, maniac, insanity, violence, serial murder, serial killer, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Movie in collections
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StageFright (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, psychopath, survival, theater, blood, woman in danger, macabre, mental institution, rehearsal, theatre group ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, psychotronic, gothic horror, noir ...
Plot: hagsploitation, religious fanatic, insanity, psychotic woman, revenge, exodus, mental disorder, female psychopath, anti christianity, macabre, wedding, village ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.4
 10K
The Dentist (1996)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.
Style: psychological, medical horror, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: medical, violence against women, murder, psycho killer, sadistic psychopath, dentist, infidelity, serial killer, voyeur, voyeurism, mentally unstable, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.7
 305K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, holiday horror, small town, psychiatrist, babysitter, violence, violent, babysitting ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 18K
The Stepfather (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, maniac, murder of family, fake identity, new identity, killer, macabre, mental illness, murderer, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s
Place: turkey, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, christmas, santa claus, murder, survival, holiday, holiday horror, killer santa claus, psychopath, winter, obsession, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 70s, year 1974, year 1971
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.8
 2K
Axe (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, cult classic ...
Plot: rape and revenge, revenge, paralysis, killer, exploitation, serial killer, woman with a gun, hell, massacre, evil child, 666, jack the ripper ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.0
 640
Don't Hang Up (1974)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, gothic horror, classic horror, independent film ...
Plot: murder, haunted, doll, exploitation, haunted house, maniac, granddaughter, grandmother, stalking, stalker, danger, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, art, murder, sadistic psychopath, psycho killer, hallucination, surrealism, policewoman, obsession, memory loss, mental illness, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, florence, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Last Stop on the Night Train (1975)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
Style: disturbing, christmas horror, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: rape and revenge, sadism, train, murder, gory, rape victim, woman in danger, evil woman, danger, forced sex, psychopath, railway ...
Time: year 2016, 70s
Place: italy, germany, europe, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Carl (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, gory, woman in danger, rivalry, confined, small town, good versus evil, survival, strong violent content, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 4K
Anguish (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Style: slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, mind twisting, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, two killers, hypnosis, terror, surrealism, eye, blood, psycho killer, spirituality, survival, teenager, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
 13K
Pieces (1982)
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, suspense, scary, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, college, psychopath, danger, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, male nudity, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, year 1982, year 1942
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 153K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, survival, deaf, female protagonist, deafness, violence, masked killer, brutality, murder, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
 4K
Blood Brides (1970)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Style: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, homicidal maniac, serial murder, woman in danger, gory, wedding, whodunit, fashion, family life, criminal ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
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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 ⇓
21%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, halloween, supernatural, masked villain, monster, holiday horror, murder, massacre, hospital, gory, obsession, kitten ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.4
 8K
The Tortured (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: torture, kidnapping, bloody violence, child murder, gory, revenge, sadism, child killer, psychopath, homicidal maniac, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.
Style: slasher, cult classic, bloody, independent film, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, teenager, high school, psychopath, hide and seek, elevator, gay, graduation, home invasion, isolation, celebration ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 549
The Third Eye (1966)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The young Count Mino live in a big, old castle together with his dominant mother and a maid. Mother does not want him to marry his fiancee Laura, which turns out to have dire consequences.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, neo noir, crying
Plot: wedding, age-gap relationship, owl, mental illness, mother, manor, mental patient, trauma, killing, dead body, murderer, bare chested male ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
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Don't Hang Up (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, telephone call, home invasion, mysterious stranger, teenager, stalker, murder, terror, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death threat, threat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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