Movies like The Zodiac Killer
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The Zodiac Killer (1971)
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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, weird, cult film, based on true events
Plot:
serial killer, murder, killer, zodiac, exploitation, psychotic, mystery killer, psycho, police officer, violence, female nudity, teenage girl, taxi, african american, truck driver, lie, mirror, sadism, rabbit, psycho killer, lake, night, masked killer, letter, desperation ...
Place:
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, cult film, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about serial killer, blood, murder, gore, psychopath, violence and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Zodiac Killer: The Prowler (1981), The Toolbox Murders (1978), The Gruesome Twosome (1967), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), The Den (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, college, obsession, soldier, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, masked villain, love affair, masked killer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, year 1944, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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:
slasher, disturbing, controversial, bloody, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, murder, killer, fashion model, masked killer, isolation, home invasion, murderer, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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, campy, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, scalping, fraternity, suspense, killer, mentally challenged, stalking, murder, psychopath, bodily dismemberment, torture ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, scary, suspenseful, bloody, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, suspense, masked killer, lake, serial murder, teenager, camp, crazy, macabre, demon ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, internet, murder, panic, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop, cyberspace, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Movies like Scream
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Style:
dark, slasher, brutal, psychotronic
Plot:
ghost, serial killer, murder, coming of age, college, whodunit, revenge, murder mystery, scream queen, killing spree, characters killed one by one, african american ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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:
rough, disturbing, sadistic, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, torture, macabre, murder, psychopath, maniac, investigation, violence, sadism, torment, suffering ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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:
slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, murder, prostitute, voyeurism, killer, maniac, mystery killer, police psychologist, serial murder, murder of a prostitute, nude ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
scotland yard, london, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, christmas, psychopath, college, stalking, supernatural, school, college life, law enforcement, frame up, who done it ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Movies like The Strangers
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, suspenseful, rough, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, suspense, masked killer, murder, violence against women, psychopath, sadism, violence, death, bad girl, cell phone ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style:
slasher, bloody, psychotronic, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, sorority, college, female nudity, prank, attic, voyeurism, murder, accidental death, old woman, childbirth, dead woman ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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, bloody, surprise ending, splatter, weird ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, serial killer, college, exploitation, sorority, teenager, masked killer, survival, quest, fear, female villain, woman with a gun ...
Place:
ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
28K
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, bloody, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, psycho, psychiatrist, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, suspense, female nudity, police station, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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, intense, bloody, exciting ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, camp, forest, serial killer, masked killer, murder, lake, death, vengeance, torture, massacre, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
Place:
usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes similar movies
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, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, murder, insanity, tourist, hotel, macabre, erotica, fear, american abroad, violence, bus ...
Place:
europe, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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, brutal, suspenseful, splatter, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, teenage life, social relations ...
Time:
year 1976, year 1946, year 2013
Place:
texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 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, bloody, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
voyeurism, serial killer, female nudity, obsession, murder, transvestism, psychopath, musician, stalker, killer, violent, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, college, murder, psychopath, night school, suspicion, pregnancy, mysterious character, riddles and clues, love affair, woman in danger, teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
boston, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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, bloody, sexy, campy, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, mental illness, suspense, hotel, characters murdered one by one, accidental death, insanity, depression, twists and turns, nude ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Friday the 13th related movies
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. The ...
Style:
psychotronic, surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, house, suspense, lgbt, nude, police psychologist, desire, police detective, mental breakdown, car, unknown killer, psychological trauma ...
Place:
ireland, switzerland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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:
scary, serious, rough, realistic, slasher
Plot:
serial killer, murder, devil worship, blasphemy, gang violence, violence, satanist, killer, suspense, stalking, rivalry, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film starts out incredibly in a beautiful Gothic castle in Germany. As little girls, Kitty Wildenbrück and her sister Evelyn have been fighting when their grandfather tells them the story behind an incredibly uncanny painting: Legend has it ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, exciting, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, whodunit, death, female psychopath, anger, rage, cruelty, insanity, evil, brutality ...
Place:
germany, europe, italy, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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, sadistic, psychotronic, mad, psycho film
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, sex crime, murder, hotel, butcher, mutilation, masked man, psycho killer, hidden room, villain, killing spree ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, bloody, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, teenager, suspense, serial teen killer, mental illness, hospital, torture, massacre, nude, mental institution, killer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Movies like Friday the 13th
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, serial killer, track and field, murder, female nudity, masked killer, teenager, runner, dead teenager, night, camp, fear ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sorority, serial killer, ritual, murder, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, haunted by the past, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, torture, masked killer, redneck, self mutilation, murder, violence spree, wilderness, obsession, isolation, corpse ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, obsession, stalking, murder, photographer, mind game, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, riddles and clues, woman in danger, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, vietnam, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style:
slasher, bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, whodunit, sister sister relationship, psychopath, homicidal maniac, killing spree, sadistic psychopath, threatening telephone call, murder mystery, characters killed one by one, gory violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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