Movies like Shapeshifter
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Shapeshifter (2005)
778
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat Glazer and A.J. Hammond make up the ensemble cast of this independent horror thriller from director Gregory Lemkin, who also shares screenwriting credits.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, serious, offbeat
Plot:
prison, survival, vengeance, confined, supernatural, isolation, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, werewolf, demon, murder, violence, suspense, showdown, dangerous animal, prison life, chaos and mayhem, chess, female nudity, prisoner, security guard, protector, motel, struggle for survival, maximum security prison ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and tense films with plots about danger, deadly, suspense, murder, gory, supernatural and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Shapeshifter: Lynch Mob (2009), Werewolf in a Womens Prison (2006), Inside (2012), Primitive (2011), Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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467
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
prison, supernatural, haunted by the past, confined, deadly creature, escape, suspense, violence, demon, jail cell, prisoner, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
177
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, scary
Plot:
murder, curses spells and rituals, estrangement, supernatural, mentally unstable, bigfoot, creature, demon, rivalry, showdown, human host, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style:
scary, gothic, dark, stylized, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, mythical creature, transformation, wilderness, sister, curses spells and rituals, winter, beast, sister sister relationship, snow ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of ...
Style:
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60%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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271
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seven misfits are trapped by a flesh eating slime creature. And no TV!
Style:
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Plot:
parasite, deadly creature, isolation, confined, murder, monster, fear, deathtrap, survival, suspense, violence, death ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
596
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Held captive in an underground prison by a sadistic sicko who fancies himself a surgeon, 4 women fight for their lives, knowing the exact time they're scheduled to die thanks to a crudely carved set of numbers on each of their bodies. None of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
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Plot:
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351
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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546
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
"Uncharted" is a story of a documentary film crew who crash on an island, when they were in hopes of finding a rare animal, a jaguar, that is believed to inhabit the jungle. Unfortunate circumstances arise when her charter plane goes down ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the ...
Style:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Roving clans of shape-shifting human/hyena creatures prowl and hunt for human prey. They are hunted by one man seeking revenge for the death of his loved ones.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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