Movies like Axe

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Axe (1977)
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Axe (1977)
Original name: Lisa, Lisa
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, controversial, southern gothic, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, scary ...
Plot: rape and revenge, revenge, paralysis, serial killer, killer, hell, jack the ripper, occult, massacre, freak, evil child, home invasion, 666, exploitation, woman with a gun, murder, small town, isolated house, psychopath, gang, gory, sexual abuse, fugitives, chases and races, vigilantism ...
Time: 70s
Place: texas, usa
Keyword: drive in

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, slasher and scary films with plots about psychopath, deadly, murder, serial killer, danger, gory and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Axe: I Spit on Your Grave (1978), Chaos (2005), I Spit on Your Grave (2010), Trauma (1976), The Last House on the Left (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, bloody, rough, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, vengeance, rape and revenge, rape, brutality, sex, sexual abuse, macabre, psychopath, cruelty, sadism, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, england, europe, germany, new york state ...
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95%
 3.2
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Chaos (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Emily and her friend Angelica go to a rave in the woods, and when they arrive, they meet a stranger called Swan that promises some Exstasy for the girls. They follow him to a cabin into the forest where they meet the sadistic gang leaded by the ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, serious ...
Plot: rape, sexual sadism, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, sadism, exploitation, psychopath, violence, rape victim, woods, murder, gory ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, rape, violence, sexual abuse, serial killer, revenge, rapist, woman in danger, strong violent content, murder ...
Time: year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.4
 1K
Trauma (1976)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Style: slasher, psychological, grindhouse, controversial, terrifying ...
Plot: psychopath, erotica, serial killer, writers, country house, lesbian sex, rape, sadism, revenge, murder, secretary, woman with a gun ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, vengeance, psychopath, torture, violence, serial killer, rape and revenge, kidnapping, woman in danger, violence against women, murder, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
67%
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Carl (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, gory, woman in danger, rivalry, confined, small town, good versus evil, survival, strong violent content, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Last Stop on the Night Train (1975)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
Style: disturbing, christmas horror, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: rape and revenge, sadism, train, murder, gory, rape victim, woman in danger, evil woman, danger, forced sex, psychopath, railway ...
Time: year 2016, 70s
Place: italy, germany, europe, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
60%
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, hospital, mental institution, patient, danger, isolation, doctors and patients, obsession, mind game, losing-it hero, mad scientist ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.2
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Scrapbook (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, rough, bleak, sexy ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual abuse, torture, captivity, rape and revenge, sexual torture, kidnapping, sadism, mind game, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Last House on the Left (1972)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
Style: disturbing, slasher, scary, grindhouse, sadistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rape, serial killer, gory, rape and revenge, youth, revenge, psychopath, life is a bitch, payback, violent, vengeance, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
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, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, obsession, stalking, murder, photographer, mind game, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, woman in danger, riddles and clues, female nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: los angeles, vietnam, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.3
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XII (2008)
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.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, murder, danger, masked killer, violence, xmas, escaped prisoner, pursuit, comeback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 11K
Intruder (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Style: slasher, disturbing, bloody, retro, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, gory, violence, insanity, supermarket, murder, law enforcement, rivalry, stalking, danger, who done it ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ⇓
46%
 3.1
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Escapee (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, christmas, santa claus, murder, survival, holiday, holiday horror, killer santa claus, psychopath, winter, obsession, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 70s, year 1974, year 1971
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Perkins' 14 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ronald Perkins builds an army of 14 people brainwashed through cult-like methods to protect him from his parents' killers. When Perkins is imprisoned, the police unwittingly unleash his followers on a small town and they've only got one ...
Style: slasher, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, psychopath, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, danger, gory, evil wins, vengeance, zombie, murder, revenge, deputy sheriff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, danger, chase, wedding, psychopath, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Naturally beautiful, Katie has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. But what starts out as an innocent and simple photo shoot soon turns into something disturbingly unthinkable! Raped, ...
Style: brutal, bloody, disturbing, grindhouse, scary ...
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, rape, sexual abuse, torture, rapist, gory, nudity, rape victim, gang rape, revenge, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
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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 ⇓
40%
Shallow Ground (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: vengeance, investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, psychopath, murder, gory, public nudity, small town, teenage life, serial killer, supernatural ...
Time: year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.9
 3K
X-Ray (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot: hospital, serial killer, murder, psychopath, valentine's day, stalking, physical exam, child murders a child, vengeance, blood, danger, decapitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
I Drink Your Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A band of satanist hippies roll into a town and begin terrorizing the local folk. After raping a local girl, her grandpa goes after them, only to be beaten and forced to take LSD. His grandson then plots revenge on the satanists by feeding them meat ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, satanic, terrifying ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, rabies, satanist, rape and revenge, exploitation, zombie, machete, counterculture, revenge, virus, occult ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex (David Hess) is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, sexual, surprise ending ...
Plot: rape and revenge, rape, violence, violence against women, revenge, exploitation, gory, extreme, serial killer, cruelty, sexual assault, sexploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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