Movies like Home for the Holidays 1972
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Home for the Holidays (1972)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, christmas horror
Plot:
christmas, murder, forest, suspense, hagsploitation, psychopath, family gatherings, rainstorm, estranged father, killer, storm, flood, father, discovery, wife, sibling relationship, poison, obsession, stalking, family relations, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, family in danger, woman in danger ...
Time:
70s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, slasher, scary and serious films with plots about murder, deadly, serial killer, danger, psychopath, suspense and killer mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Home for the Holidays: Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003), Frayed (2007), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990), Psycho (1998), Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother ...
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Time:
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washington state, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' ...
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slasher, psychotronic, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
christmas, axe murderer, small town, holiday horror, psychopath, paranoia, death, fear, characters killed one by one, violence, serial killer, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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75%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, bloody, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, split personality, psychopath, schizophrenia, matricide, poisoning, voyeur, double murder, incestuous desire, oedipus complex, monster, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
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Plot:
psychopath, split personality, motel, murder, hotel, parents and children, isolation, eccentric family, serial killer, mental illness, secret, psycho ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, arizona
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
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Plot:
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Time:
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59%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl. But when the baby's biological father starts stalking them, their world turns upside down: through intimidation, manipulation, and violence, he is determined to ...
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, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
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slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, bloody ...
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Time:
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49%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
It all began so innocently for two children growing up in the deepest countryside, their imaginations set ablaze by a book on local myths and legends. Berenice convinces her younger brother Brian that she is the reincarnation of a witch with the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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48%
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.
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman gathers her friends together in a cabin to try and protect them from a killer after she dreams each of their deaths. This, however, just puts them all in one spot making for easy pickings for the slasher.
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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: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. ...
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: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Time:
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35%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Following the murders at the Rollerdome, Skye Rotter leaves town in search of a normal life. Reunited with the mother who abandoned her as a child, Skye's dream of a happier life starts to take shape - until her serial killer father returns.
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