Movies like The Undertow

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The Undertow (2003)
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The Undertow (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, terrifying secrets of the town surface. A seven-foot-tall deformed maniac, known by the townsfolk as The Boy is kept under lock and key by the town's mayor. The Boy's purpose is simple: kill outsiders. The Mayor of Old Mines releases The Boy and the maniac's hunt begins. One by one, the campers on their float trip are ripped to gory shreds by the enraged, deformed, hulking Boy. But there is great mystery to the Boy. Who is his father? Who is his mother? How did he become so dangerous? In the end, the answers to these questions will put the entire town of Old Mines in danger. The Boy is an unstoppable killing machine, and anyone in his path won't be in one piece for long!
Style: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, independent film, atmospheric, serious, splatter
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, survival, serial killer, psychopath, backwoods, supernatural, gory, isolation, escapades, danger, wilderness, family in danger, violence spree, stalking, macabre, murder, brutality, dark secret, forest, mercilessness, weekend, redneck, evil alien, small town life, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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Most similar movies to The Undertow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, scary, serious and suspenseful films with plots about danger, deadly, serial killer, psychopath, murder, gory and survival mostly in Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Undertow: Carver (2008), Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), Psycho Cop (1989), Dr. Chopper (2005), It Waits (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Carver (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on true events
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, brutal ...
Plot: brutality, sadism, psychopath, torture, murder, castration, stalking, wilderness, friendship, maniac, gory, death ...
Time: 21st century
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, scary, disturbing, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, vengeance, maniac, murder, gory, american civil war, exploitation, redneck, macabre, brutality, mayor, sadism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, southern usa
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Psycho Cop (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, survival, youth, danger, violence spree, violence, woods, woman with a gun, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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Dr. Chopper (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Five young friends head out to the country for a weekend at the family cabin and run afoul of a group of motorcycle riding madwomen led by the sadistic, knife-wielding plastic surgeon Dr. Fielding.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, psychopath, obsession, gang, danger, stalking, escapades, youth, isolation, supernatural, mad doctor ...
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27%
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It Waits (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: creature, wilderness, survival, murder, gory, danger, stalking, deadly creature, monster, forest, forest ranger, kaiju ...
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27%
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
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100%
The Final Terror (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fugitives, backwoods, murder, psychopath, woods, stalking, serial killer, youth, camp, gory, insanity, rage ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, southern california
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Cannibal Campout (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four teenagers on an outing in the woods are attacked by a trio of mutant cannibals.
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, cannibal, travel, killer, flesh eater, mutant, youth, murder, attempted rape, violent content, woods ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, texas
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24%
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Spiker (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed ...
Style: slasher, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, small town, albino, danger, cheerleader, stalking, evil man, ghost, violence, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
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Bunnyman (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bunnyman is the story of a group of friends on their way back from a spontaneous weekend trip to Las Vegas, and while driving through the remote regions of southern California they suddenly find themselves in a sickening game of cat and mouse with a ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot: gory, psychopath, survival, on the road, danger, escapades, isolation, confined, captivity, profanity, rabbit, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, massacre, psychopath, torture, chainsaw, murder, gory, insanity, masked killer, violence, human monster, backwoods ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, latin america, mexico
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23%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, torture, gory, murder, cruelty, cannibal, violence, sadism, chainsaw, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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23%
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Slaughtered (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, confined, captivity, death, violence, hardcore, supernatural, gory, isolation, wilderness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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23%
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Blood Ranch (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four college students and an Iraq War vet, lost on a desert highway, encounter a terrified young woman with a black van on her trail. They survive the ensuing chase but their car doesn't, forcing them to seek help at a nearby ranch. Only when ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, slasher
Plot: survival, serial killer, redneck, psychopath, mind game, danger, rescue, mental illness, isolation, gory, murder, youth ...
Place: usa, texas
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Blood Descendants (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, ghost, supernatural, danger, vengeance, murder, curses spells and rituals, obsessive quest, supernatural ability, deadly creature, small town ...
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Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival horror, deadly creature, danger, youth, plague, isolation, teenage life, gory, chaos, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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23%
One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
Style: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, isolation, danger, hiking, teenager, carnival, killer clown, murder, violence, psychopath, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Satan's Playground (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: SATAN'S PLAYGROUND is a supernatural shocker chronicling a family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. En route to a wilderness camping retreat, their car inexplicably breaks down. As darkness falls, ...
Style: slasher, surreal, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, ghost, serial killer, family relations, isolation, psychopath, danger, supernatural, supernatural ability, survival, voyeur, destiny ...
Place: new jersey, texas, usa, europe, england
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22%
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Lynch Mob (2009)
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 ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, mafia, survival, danger, rivalry, isolation, vengeance, imaginary, confined, curses spells and rituals, small town, curse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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22%
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, wilderness, teenage life, youth, danger, woods, curses spells and rituals, murder, nightmare, monster, mountain ...
Time: 90s
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Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "ChromeSkull" is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit "Laid to Rest." It brings back ChromeSkull, who barely escaped death in the first movie and is hell-bent on continuing where he left off... and forging a new path of terror and ...
Style: slasher, exciting, scary, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, psychopath, survival, wannabe, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, master criminal, danger, obsession, gory, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
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Albino Farm (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.
Style: suspenseful, slasher, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: backwoods, redneck, survival, small town, danger, mutant, isolation, confined, farm, deformity, torture, group of friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
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22%
The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough
Plot: gory, supernatural, forest, decapitation, murder, psychopath, serial killer, danger, imaginary, city life, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
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22%
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Blood Feast (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, gory, supernatural, violence, human sacrifice, murder, zombie, exploitation, cannibalism, violent, brutality, macabre ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, miami
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22%
Friday the 13th: Vengeance (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Friday the 13th fan film. Friday the 13th Vengeance combines death, brutality and creativity to bold storytelling in this dark take on the franchise.
Style: slasher, exciting, scary, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot: masked killer, vengeance, serial killer, woods, psychopath, maniac, brutality, survival, murderer, serial murder, macabre, danger ...
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21%
Blood Runs Cold (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Winona, a successful artist looking to get away from her stressful life. Her manager rents her a house in her home town where she runs in to an old boyfriend. They go back to the house, only to find out it is not as empty as they assumed.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, winter, danger, woman in danger, gory, isolation, masked killer, snow, nudity, strong violent content, guts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Sea of Fear (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: College athlete Lance and his friend Tom meet Tom's girlfriend Kate and her friend Ashley in a marina to travel on a rented boat on a leisure trip. The Captain brings his navigator and first mate Joel and another unexpected passenger, Derek, ...
Style: suspense, slasher, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: murder, survival, danger, psychopath, mysterious character, ship, twists and turns, cruise, violence, student athlete, serial killer, water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
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: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, psychopath, danger, survival, isolation, forest, revenge, camping, decapitation, lost in the woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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21%
Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, murder, survival, stalking, on the run, isolation, wilderness, mental illness, backwoods, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
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21%
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Gnaw (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this dark, tongue in cheek, British Horror, six friends take a holiday in the heart of the English countryside which turns into a culinary nightmare when they discover that their hosts are a sadistic family of cannibals, set on turning their ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, psychopath, escapades, danger, gory, redneck, cannibalism, serial killer, cannibal, flesh eating, nudity, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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