Movies like Impulse 1984

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Impulse (1984)
 5.9
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Impulse (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...
Style: suspense thriller, independent film, scary, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense
Plot: public sex, virus, mental disorder, plague, conspiracy, town, mental illness, small town, earthquake, male nudity, disaster, escapades, danger, forces of nature, mentally unstable, small town life, curses spells and rituals, demon, children, ballet, violence, murder, ballerina, investigator, human experiment ...
Time: 80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about deadly, danger, supernatural, murder, small town, gory and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Impulse: Night Shadows (1984), Ghost Lake (2004), Kaw (2006), Rise of the Dead (2007), Infection (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Night Shadows (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, mutant, small town, zombie, survival, chaos, danger, experiment gone awry, infection, plague, undead, virus ...
Time: 80s
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95%
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Ghost Lake (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, scary, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, isolation, small town, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, mentally unstable, dealing with death, family in danger, small town life, resort ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.3
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Kaw (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: bird attack, bird, small town, curse, diner, danger, misfit, deadly creature, gory, isolation, social relations, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Rise of the Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In the sleepy small town of Dudley, Ohio, a terrifying future awaits. Laura is almost raped by a normal lawyer who appears to have gone crazy. When her boyfriend, Jack Walther saves her by running him over with her car, the cops don't buy the ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot: danger, isolation, supernatural, rivalry, small town, possession, survival, murder, violence, ghost, pregnancy, zombie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Infection (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, danger, social relations, dishonesty, love triangle, creature, infection, government coverup, survival, uncover truth, virus, pandemic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Sanatorium (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: afterlife, found footage, ghost, mentally unstable, mental institution, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, hospital, danger, violence, murder, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 3.4
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They Crawl (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 4.2
 1K
Scourge (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
Plot: parasite, survival, violence spree, supernatural, danger, small town, deadly creature, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, small town life, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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GhostWatcher (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Laura Kove is an agoraphobic young woman whose world turns upside down when she discovers that the apartment she's locked herself into is haunted. Turning to the internet for help, she enlists the aid of Elizabeth Dean, a scam artist who passes ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, mind bending
Plot: uncover truth, supernatural, woman in danger, serial killer, impossible love, danger, ghost, isolation, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, haunted, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 2.7
 487
The 13th Unit (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: monster, dangerous animal, curses spells and rituals, danger, survival, murder, supernatural, deathtrap, rivalry, isolation, violence, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
A Haunting in Salem (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, witchcraft, small town, murder, witch, pursuit, sheriff, drowning, relocation, danger, parents and children ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 4.5
 570
Abducted (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot: danger, captivity, confined, kidnapping, abduction, survival, violence, murder, wrestling, kidnapped, escape, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Killer Instinct (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher
Plot: vengeance, ghost, supernatural, psychopath, danger, gory, haunted by the past, murder, small town life, dark and stormy night, game, sexual murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.2
 2K
Believers (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two paramedics responding to an emergency call find themselves kidnapped by a religious sect whose great obsession is to stop the end of the world by committing suicide and killing people.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: rescue, religious fanatic, confined, survival, mentally unstable, supernatural, on the run, leadership, danger, rivalry, psychopath, religions or cults ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 2.2
 744
Zombex (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, chaos, supernatural, profanity, danger, escapades, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, fear, graphic violence, undead, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 3.4
 693
Unholy (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martha, a widow living in rural Pennsylvania, comes home to find her daughter about to blow her own head off with a shotgun in the basement of their house. Martha doesn't succeed in stopping her child's horrific demise, but the girl's ...
Style: suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mind control, human experiment, suicide, nazi occultism, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, danger, parents and children, curses spells and rituals, conspiracy, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.9
 775
Bay Coven (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young newlywed couple move into a remote village in middle America only to find a secret coven of witches who want them to join all the fun; or face the consequences.
Style: spooky, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, serious ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, small town, ghost, supernatural being, wedding, american horror, creepy kid, devil, village, coven, death of friend ...
Time: 80s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 3.3
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Skeeter (1993)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!
Style: natural horror, retro, cult classic, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, insect, killer animal, monster, small town, motorcycle, sheriff, death, exploitation, animal attack, creature, toxic ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Dead Still (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, scary ...
Plot: danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, missing person, wedding, photography, gory, supernatural romance, imaginary, recurring nightmare, mute child, homeless man ...
Time: victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 3.2
 260
Terror Inside (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the smallest of Florida towns a lone well driller, Joe, works gathering geological samples for a university study. Unknowingly, Joe unearths more than just primordial muck from deep below the swamp. A strange oozing liquid, is absorbed into ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: swamp, virus, small town, save the world, terrorism, danger, laboratory, murder, diner, small town life, college, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: epidemic, virus, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, heroic mission, plague, experiment gone awry, chaos, heroes, danger ...
Place: usa, angola, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, tense, scary, psychological ...
Plot: survival horror, vengeance, danger, vigilante, insanity, torture, murder, trapped, death, characters in danger, trap, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ⇓
85%
Children of the Living Dead (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: living dead, zombie, plague, small town, danger, teenage life, gory, social relations, violence, night of the living dead, monster, zombie attack ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a strange mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, scary, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, stonehenge, supernatural, factory, curfew, serial killer, robot, hospital, witch, female nudity, bad guys win, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: northern california, california, seattle, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Dead Voices (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two sisters film a documentary about spiritual mediums. After their first failed attempt with a faux medium, they come across Mike, a seemingly legitimate communicator with the dead. Mike reveals a disturbing mystery, Sara's fiancée, Lucas, ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: clairvoyant, found footage, supernatural power, supernatural, characters in danger, fear, monster, chase, exorcism, creature, werewolf, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.2
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Bloodwork (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: buddies, human experiment, survival, experiment gone awry, danger, hospital, isolation, mind game, medicine, serial killer, virus, attempted rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.9
 5K
Brain Dead (1990)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style: surreal, black comedy, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, hallucination, nightmare, experiment, insanity, delusion, experiment gone awry, psychiatrist, surrealism, corporation, doctors and patients, obsession ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 3.4
 572
Plasterhead (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, supernatural, danger, vengeance, survival, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, feral man, diner, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Scream at the Devil (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husbands elicit affairs and when her hallucinations become reality the Devil comes to take his due. Is Miriam insane or has the Devil come to collect on her promise?
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: schizophrenic, unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship, insanity, schizophrenia, devil, vengeance, danger, violence, mental disorder, photography, terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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