Movies like Twisted 1985
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Twisted (1985)
561
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they need a new babysitter for an upcoming big party. The sensible Helen meets little Susan Collins at the discount market and likes her, so she offers to do the job. She doesn't know Susan's teenage brother Mark - technically skilled and good in school, but restive and cunning. As soon as the parents have left, he starts psychologically terrorizing Helen and his sister with electronic tricks.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
evil child, babysitter, cat, killer child, teenage boy, dinner party, children, psycho, obsession, creepy child, bad kids, maid, teenager, revenge, nazi, doll, past, fencing, rat, family relations, chemistry, kitten, parent child relationship, evil, brother sister relationship ...
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Most similar movies to Twisted
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and slasher films with plots about danger, deadly, evil child, murder, bad kids, supernatural and killer child mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Twisted: Mikey (1992), Bloody Birthday (1981), The Paper Boy (1994), When a Stranger Calls (2006), Daddy's Girl (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
4K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, boy, killer child, serial killer, electrocution, swimming pool, orphan, children, obsession, jealousy, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
evil child, solar eclipse, child in peril, holiday horror, patricide, bare breasts, sociopath, creepy child, children, birthday, elementary school, creepy kid ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, year 1980, 70s, year 1970
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they ...
Style:
slasher, cult classic, saga, scary, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stephen king, children, supernatural, creepy child, cornfield, killer child, occult, evil child, reporter, investigation, gory, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for ...
Style:
scary, slasher, cult classic, saga, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer child, stephen king, scarecrow, supernatural, creepy child, killer scarecrow, evil child, religion, telekinesis, vengeance, youth, gory ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
nebraska, chicago, usa
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, realistic, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
paperboy, mentally unstable, family relations, psychopath, danger, estate, stalking, small town, evil child, murder, killer child, serial killer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston
Similarity:
46%
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:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, maniac, high school, stalking, killer, babysitter, husband wife relationship, babysitting, murder, high school student, nightmare ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
evil child, killer child, childhood trauma, father, murder, creepy kid, school, family relations, danger, adopted daughter, redhead girl, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Grace Rhodes, who is studying to be a doctor, returns to her hometown as a strange illness is afflicting the local children. The symptoms include a high fever and spasms, but even weirder is what happens the next day: All those with the illness ...
Style:
slasher, saga, scary, classic horror, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stephen king, serial killer, killer child, evil child, supernatural, murder, gory, chase, blood, fever, cornfield, preacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska this remake of the 1984 original (based on Stephen King's 1977 short story) centers around traveling couple Burt and Vicky as they fight to survive a cult of murderous children who ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, classic horror ...
Plot:
stephen king, ritual, human sacrifice, evil wins, creepy child, cornfield, children, public sex, sacrifice, society, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
60s, year 1975, 70s, year 1963, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, vietnam, asia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stephen king, religions or cults, supernatural, youth, confined, supernatural ability, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, killer child, farmhouse, evil child ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, california
Similarity:
41%
781
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
Style:
serious, tense, scary, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
danger, child illness, zombie, parents and children, family problems, virus, violence, murder, feral man, evil child, killer child, possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When she takes a job babysitting a young boy (Kai Caster) for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright (Sarah Thompson) becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling ...
Style:
satanic, scary, bloody, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
babysitter, stalking, murder, blood, telephone call, chase, psychopath, police officer killed, roommate, evil child, danger, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
Style:
scary, psychological horror, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
child as adult, psychopath, baby, evil child, killer child, boy, creepy kid, family relations, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children controlled by evil forces. Yet even as bodies begin cropping ...
Style:
slasher, saga, classic horror, cult horror, pastoral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stephen king, creepy child, evil child, killer child, supernatural, religion, teenager, bad kids, faith, occult, creepy kid, murderer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska - only to find that it's been condemned and overtaken by possessed children. As she digs deeper, she ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, captivating ...
Plot:
stephen king, zombie, ghost, police detective, small town, creepy child, serial killer, good versus evil, supernatural, religions or cults, escapades, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she ...
Plot:
evil child, creepy child, violence, female villain, youth, tiny, moral dilemma, dilemma, psycho, evil woman, bad kids, suicide ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find out who her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in ...
Style:
slasher, saga, classic horror, pastoral, cult horror ...
Plot:
stephen king, evil child, killer child, teenager, suicide, machete, coma, religion, creepy kid, occult, faith, bad kids ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, frightening, scary, bloody, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, murder of family, male nudity, fake identity, stepfather, new identity, murderer, killer, mental illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
turkey, seattle, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Style:
suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
evil child, family in danger, orphan, supernatural, passionate kiss, possessed girl, couples, adoption, creepy child, starting over, danger, mentally challenged ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
35%
336K
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, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, curse, good versus evil, supernatural horror, demon, investigation, serial killer, danger, twists and turns, scared, hospital ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, japan, usa, asia, illinois ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The legend of that creepy masked-man, Michael Myers, comes to life once again in this fourth installment of the successful horror franchise. This time, it's Michael's niece, Jamie, who can't seem to escape her crazy uncle. With ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, splatter, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, holiday horror, masked killer, masked villain, small town, teenager, murder, crime spree, blood, monster, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
illinois, chicago
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally ...
Style:
psychological, scary, splatter, classic horror, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
poltergeist, ghost, supernatural, mirror, beast, afterlife, skyscraper, little girl, supernatural horror, haunted, elevator, demon ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A flashy LA photographer decides to help a little boy get back home. The kid happens to live deep into marshland, with his siblings and mom.
Style:
slasher, spooky
Plot:
evil child, lost in the woods, redneck, bare chested male, double barreled shotgun, brother brother relationship, german shepherd, absent mother, manipulative behavior, sibling relationship, absent father, bad kids ...
Similarity:
32%
455
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A brother and sister with a past incestuous relationship have a current murderous relationship. He murders the women who reject him and she murders the women who get too close to him.
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, serial killer, implied incest, valentine's day, wedding, supernatural being, investigation, obsession, psychopath, love affair, murder, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, splatter, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
doll, killer doll, evil doll, serial killer, supernatural horror, foster home, villain, supernatural, supernatural power, disbelieving adult, evil spirit, rainstorm ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, midwest
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, christmas horror, creepy, psychological ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, evil child, found footage, psychopath, killer child, twins, valentine's day, disturbed child, family problems, danger, family life, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist
Style:
suspenseful, satanic, serious, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
evil child, supernatural, wedding, murder, mother son relationship, mentally unstable, danger, apocalypse, pregnancy, family relations, religious, child murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a new teacher arrives at school he finds students that are extremely well behaved and soon uncovers a special class of very young children forming a hive mind, keeping the students and teachers calm and focused with murderous results.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
evil child, boarding school, mind control, killer child, deception, school, bully, death, evil wins, forced suicide, teacher, murder ...
Similarity:
29%
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