Movies like The Zodiac Killer

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The Zodiac Killer (1971)
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The Zodiac Killer (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a cop?
Style: slasher, detective, weird, cult film
Plot: serial killer, murder, killer, zombie, zodiac, exploitation, skirt, psychotic, true crime, killing, mystery killer, psycho, police officer, police, violence, female nudity, teenage girl, taxi, african american, truck driver, lie, mirror, swimming pool, sadism, rabbit ...
Place: bay area, california, san francisco

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Most similar movies to The Zodiac Killer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, independent film and serious films with plots about serial killer, murder, blood, violence, killer, psychopath and gore mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Zodiac Killer: The Prowler (1981), The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), The Gruesome Twosome (1967), The Toolbox Murders (1978), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Prowler (1981)
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, suspenseful, rough, scary, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, college, obsession, masked killer, soldier, sadism, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, masked villain ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1945, year 1944, year 1980 ...
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style: disturbing, sadistic, slasher, rough, scary ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, psychopath, macabre, investigation, torture, murder, psycho killer, maniac, sadism, suffering, violence ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A demented, elderly woman has her mentally retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop. A persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, gory, scalping, fraternity, freak, deep south, killer, college, murder, psychopath, stalking ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Toolbox Murders (1978)
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: grindhouse, disturbing, slasher, controversial, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, rape and revenge, exploitation, masked killer, gory, murder, killer, fashion model, maniac, scared, isolation, home invasion ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, gory, crazy, psycho killer, lake, maniac, serial murder, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.0
 15K
The Den (2013)
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, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, murder, danger, panic, cyberspace, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, danger, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: year 1946, year 1976, year 2013
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.6
 31K
Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Friday the 13th (1980)
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, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, maniac, gory, murder, revenge, disturbed individual, summer, summer camp, psychopath, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Midnight Killer (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nicola confronts his beautiful wife about the affair she's been having. But someone brutally murders her in the shower, right after he leaves the house. Naturally Nicola is made prime suspect. But his colleague, Anna, sees signs that the murder ...
Style: slasher, detective, psychotronic, disturbing, splatter ...
Plot: serial killer, wife, disturbed person, slaughter, killing, insane, rage, mystery killer, crazy, bloodbath, slaughterhouse, dismemberment ...
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.5
 16K
Psycho III (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bloody, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, mental illness, homicidal maniac, accidental death, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, voyeur, old dark house, insanity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Wicked, Wicked (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a ...
Style: slasher, horror comedy, detective, slasher horror, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, hotel, murder, exploitation, sex crime, underground, sadistic killer, sadism, villain, killer, butcher, bad guy ...
Time: year 1973, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, independent film, detective, surprise ending ...
Plot: jack the ripper, serial killer, cannibalism, maniac, killer, murder, prostitute, voyeurism, mystery killer, bare chested male, nudity, trauma ...
Time: 1880s, 19th century
Place: scotland yard, london, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Girls Nite Out (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.
Style: slasher, cult classic, bloody, surprise ending, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, serial killer, bare chested male, college, campus, exploitation, teenager, radio, sorority, carnage, survival, woman with a gun ...
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Nightstalker (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties
Style: serious, scary, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, blasphemy, gang violence, devil worship, satanist, violence, true crime, killer, stalking, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Night School (1981)
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, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, college, murder, psychopath, night school, suspicion, pregnancy, riddles and clues, woman in danger, love affair, danger, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: boston, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
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: christmas horror, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, college, christmas, psychopath, stalking, supernatural, college life, gory, school, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.3
 21K
Prom Night (1980)
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, grindhouse, suspense, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, serial killer, teenager, masked killer, prom, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, bullying, prom queen, sexual predator ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2016, year 1980, 20th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Eyeball (1975)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, murder, tourist, insanity, hotel, eye, erotica, macabre, woman with a gun, american abroad, bus ...
Place: barcelona, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 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, horror musical, cult classic, metafiction ...
Plot: voyeurism, serial killer, nudity, female nudity, voyeur, stalker, obsession, gory, murder, psychopath, transvestism, blood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Zipperface (1992)
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lisa Ryder is a young policewoman recently promoted to detective when she has her first case in tracking down and identifying a serial killer in her small California town.
Style: slasher, detective, erotic, independent film
Plot: serial killer, fetish, female detective, murder, policewoman, mystery killer, police investigation, psycho killer, psychopath, police procedural, masked killer, small town ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, murder, teenager, serial teen killer, mental illness, torture, hospital, nudity, killer, masked killer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lust for Vengeance (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five women obsessed with sex & drugs pay for their sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, suspense, bleak, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, mysterious man, friendship, obsession, revenge, murder, female victim, danger, voyeurism, fear, sadist, male nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, masked killer, summer camp, gory, murder, friday the 13th, killing spree, woods, psychopath, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Home Sweet Home (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a methodical killer inside.
Style: slasher, suspense, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: home invasion, serial killer, murder, violence against women, masked killer, psychopath, danger, sadism, violence, death, bad girl, cell phone ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Friday the 13th (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: psychopath, gory, masked killer, group of friends, woods, camp, brutality, maniac, danger, massacre, death, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place: texas, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Slasher Night (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A Manny Velazquez underground slasher tribute about a number of serial killers on the loose in Chicago and begins a murder spree. Meanwhile,, a young man watches over his friends house over the weekend until he realizes that something is wrong.
Style: slasher, dark, bloody, psychotronic, sexy ...
Plot: home invasion, chase, murder, maniac, evil, evil clown, friendship, violence, blood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, friend ...
Place: chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Genre: 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, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, danger, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, youth, rivalry, haunted by the past, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Wolves at the Door (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: home invasion, serial killer, killing spree, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, mercilessness, group of friends, murder, killer, police officer, danger, pursuit ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
Style: slasher, scary, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, masked killer, stalking, killer, mystery killer, unknown killer, murder, maniac, human monster, police investigation, true crime ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, post world war two, year 1946
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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