Movies like The Creeper

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The Creeper (1977)
 6.2
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The Creeper (1977)
Original name: Rituals
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, dark drama, independent film, rough, bleak ...
Plot: wilderness, murder of friend, murder, doctor, river, burned alive, group of friends, decapitation, survival, stalking, woods, death, alcoholic, blindness, cigarette smoking, death of friend, death of brother, characters murdered one by one, maniac, backwoods, lgbt, vacation, redneck, gay, travel ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada

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Most similar movies to The Creeper

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, slasher and serious films with plots about danger, deadly, survival, gore, gory, redneck and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Creeper: Just Before Dawn (1981), Don't Go in the Woods (1981), Hunter's Blood (1986), High Lane (2009), The Descent (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just Before Dawn (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: psychopath, group of friends, backwoods, inbreeding, two killers, serial killer, maniac, survival, murder, stalking, ranger, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 5.8
 889
Hunter's Blood (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters to be the hunted, and they need all the ammo and wits they ...
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, exciting, serious ...
Plot: redneck, backwoods, nightmare, exploitation, rape and revenge, travel, freak, hunting, psychopath, murder, wilderness, survival ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.6
 8K
High Lane (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Plot: survival, mountain, climbing, serial murder, danger, trap, stalking, mountain climbing, friends, escapades, isolation, survival horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 7.2
 245K
The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.7
 119K
Deliverance (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, rape, canoe, friendship, rape and revenge, nature, forest, camping, backwoods, revenge, hillbilly ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The House by the Lake (1976)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for ...
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, slasher ...
Plot: rape, revenge, rape and revenge, gang, murder, violence, sadist, redneck, home invasion, vengeance, psychopath, dentist ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.2
 6K
Timber Falls (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Style: scary, suspense, bleak, slasher, psychological ...
Plot: murder, rescue, survival, serial killer, gory, danger, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, fanatic, camp, religions or cults, mountain ...
Place: west virginia, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, desert, gory, blood, cannibal, rape, serial killer, dog, murder, violence, disturbed individual, rape and revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.0
 24K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.1
 7K
Madman (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, summer camp, camp counselor, stalking, murder, danger, teenage life, forest, exploitation, woods, maniac, camp ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 36K
Wrong Turn (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: backwoods, lost in the woods, murder, abduction, cannibalism, forest, community, cannibal, hunter, escape, fear, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Devil's Ground (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with ...
Style: slasher, scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, masked killer, violence spree, psychopath, danger, murder, gory, redneck, ghost, serial killer, backwoods, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.9
 83K
The Ruins (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, jungle, gory, ruins, vacation, death, self sacrifice, chase, ancient mystery, danger, murder, parasite ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: mexico, oceania, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.1
 130K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 78K
Wolf Creek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: massacre, torture, psychopath, serial killer, psycho killer, sadistic horror, macabre, backwoods, gory, killer, sadistic killer, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
 6K
Grizzly (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into ...
Style: scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: grizzly bear, national park, camping, park ranger, hunter, creature feature, bear, wilderness, helicopter pilot, bear attack, animal attack, survival ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.3
 411
Backwoods (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Karen and Jamie bike out to a remote wooded area for camping. Jamie saves a young girl’s life with an emergency tracheotomy and her grateful father, Eben, invites the campers to his place for some dinner...where they also meet William, Eben’s ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot: feral man, freak, travel, teenager, national park, wilderness, murder, mountain, double barreled shotgun, backwoods, heart attack, park ranger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.9
 2K
The Retreat (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they ...
Style: slasher, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, serial killer, lesbian, murder, lesbian couple, gay slur, revenge, survival, violence, masked killer, young woman, serial murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.9
 2K
Crowsnest (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot: found footage, on the road, murder, survival, isolation, buddies, confined, danger, friendship, wilderness, cannibalism, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Visiting Hours (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
Style: slasher, serious, disturbing, medical horror, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, stalking, medical, psychopath, canuxploitation, danger, murder, woman in danger, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
Style: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, desert, burned alive, murder, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, survival, ghost, supernatural ability, fugitives ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.0
 675
Bleed (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Dana is failing Biology. To pass she must attend an extra credit assignment with several classmates that will lead them into a remote region of the Great Dismal Swamp, a place teeming with life... and death. While the group keeps one eye out for ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, serial killer, violence, camping, swamp, psychopath, danger, wilderness, escapades, youth, buddies, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.3
 6K
Dying Breed (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the depths of the Tasmanian wilderness a group of hikers looking for a Tasmanian Tiger. They encounter a group of cannibals descended from Alexander Pearce, who was hung for cannibalism in 1824, out to find fresh breeding stock.
Style: scary, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: backwoods, serial killer, cannibal, murder, wilderness, psychopath, danger, rescue, isolation, amputation, kidnapped, hostage ...
Time: 19th century
Place: tasmania, oceania, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, monster, survival, creature, sole survivor, deadly creature, supernatural, survival horror, gory, expedition, claustrophobia, missing person ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Storm Warning (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: couples, psychopath, castration, survival, danger, brutality, torture, sadism, mutilation, violence, confined, forces of nature ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.9
 6K
Primal (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: supernatural, group of friends, zombie, wilderness, infected, transformation, danger, violence spree, expedition, mutation, creature, vacation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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