Movies like The Boogey Man

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The Boogey Man (1980)
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The Boogey Man (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, bleak, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, vengeance, childhood trauma, psychiatrist, fear, danger, nightmare, curse, haunted by the past, family in danger, abusive mother, ghost, priest, letter, flashback, pitchfork, mistreatment, family problems, mute or deaf, death, boogeyman, blood, spying, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: new jersey
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Boogey Man

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, murder, ghost, blood and gory mostly in Horror and Crime genres. Some movies like The Boogey Man: The Devonsville Terror (1983), The Funhouse (1981), The Sentinel (1977), Revenge of the Boogeyman (1983), Don't Go in the House (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Devonsville Terror (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the ...
Style: pastoral, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, revenge, feminist, witchcraft, occult, curse, paranormal, monster, exploitation, supernatural horror, folk horror ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 17th century, 20th century
Place: new england, usa
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100%
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The Funhouse (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: carnival, murder, halloween, monster, brutality, clown, macabre, serial killer, runaway, violence, blood, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 5th century, year 1975, 15th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 12K
The Sentinel (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, model, haunted house, devil, occult, secret society, investigation, murder, hell, demon, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, italy, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Revenge of the Boogeyman (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Part two takes place in Hollywood, where survivor Lacey is staying with friends to recover from her trauma. Through long and extremely detailed flashbacks, Lacey tells the story about the murderous spirit in the little piece of mirror to befriended ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, scary ...
Plot: mirror, boogeyman, flashback, broken mirror, hollywood, trauma, filmmaking, exploitation, serial killer, paranormal, evil, supernatural ...
Time: year 1983, year 2016, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Don't Go in the House (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
Style: disturbing, slasher, grindhouse, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, sadism, burned alive, abusive mother, obsession, murder, burn victim, exploitation, child abuse, maniac, psychopath, disco ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Bones (2001)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.
Style: scary, bloody, stylized, hood, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: blaxploitation, betrayal, vengeance, dog, gory, supernatural, revenge, haunted house, hip hop, ghost, haunted by the past, brutality ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, 2000s
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, danger, death, paranormal activity, domestic disturbance, family in danger, gory, paranormal ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Return of the Boogeyman (1994)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Poor Annie every time she falls asleep, her dreams are haunted by visions of a faceless man committing unspeakable crimes. Just like a kid afraid of the dark, the Boogeyman has made her afraid to close her eyes. Annie soon realizes her hideous ...
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, slasher horror
Plot: boogeyman, serial killer, psychopath, stalking, ghost, supernatural, criminal heroes, danger, single parent, amateur detective, supernatural ability, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Superstition (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak ...
Plot: witch, witchcraft, curse, old dark house, investigation, vengeance, haunted by the past, haunted house, urban legend, danger, evil wins, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) ...
Style: slasher, serious, bleak, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, psychopath, legends and myths, gory, serial killer, vengeance, survival, danger, youth, teenage life, life is a bitch, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, afterlife, social worker, panic, haunted by the past, family problems, woman in danger, investigation, haunted, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Lutz family have managed to flee their home with their lives intact, but before them, another family lived in this house and were caught up in the original evil who weren't so lucky...
Style: demonic, scary, slasher, splatter, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, incest, possession, dysfunctional family, demon, demonic possession, supernatural, ghost, female nudity, brother sister kiss, brother sister incest, wife abuse ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, gory, serial killer, ghost, monster, violent, insanity, undead, blood, psychopath, house ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house...
Style: scary, bloody, intense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, gory, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, demonic possession, murder, parents and children, danger, supernatural ability, haunted ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Anthropophagus (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, scary, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, cannibal, blood, island, cannibalism, extreme, zombie, danger, survival, isolation, supernatural ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Possession of Michael King (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the ...
Style: demonic, dark, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: demonic possession, occult, found footage, supernatural, demon, possession, satanic ritual, self destructing, cemetery, curses spells and rituals, danger, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Orphan Killer (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister ...
Style: dark, slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, danger, siblings relations, vengeance, gory, haunted by the past, orphan, serial killer, church, violent, killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Halloween II (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, psycho killer, masked killer, masked villain, male nudity, american horror, monster, stalking ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Zombie Nation (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, scary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, life is a bitch, vengeance, psychopath, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, law enforcement, supernatural ability, rivalry, destiny ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Nightmare (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares escapes from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, grindhouse, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, rough sex, gory, exploitation, murder, mental disorder, freak, extreme, blood, psycho killer, maniac, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: florida, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Haunted Forest (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, slasher, tense ...
Plot: ghost, curse, vengeance, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals, missing person, danger, escapades, legends and myths, haunted by the past, evil spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Beyond (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style: gothic, scary, grindhouse, slasher, surreal ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, gory, blindness, violence, murder, macabre, zombie attack, surrealism, afterlife, monster, revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, italy, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Devil Times Five (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Plot: evil child, mental illness, murder, snow, killer child, escaped mental patient, isolation, winter, teenage life, obsession, danger, violence spree ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Amityville Haunting (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, dark, mockbuster ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, haunted house, ghost, danger, supernatural, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, husband wife relationship, violence, murder, paranormal activity, mysterious death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 2K
Terror (1978)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A witch's prophecy - while being burned at the stake- curse condemns a family to horrible deaths.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, silent ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, curse, occult, witchcraft, supernatural horror, black magic, undead, killer, macabre, serial killer, strip club ...
Time: middle ages
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 ⇓
59%
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