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Primitive (2011)
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Primitive (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory monster - convince the local police that Martin is somehow responsible, and soon he comes to believe it too, as all the victims are connected to the evil within him.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, scary
Plot: murder, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, estrangement, mentally unstable, bigfoot, creature, demon, rivalry, violence, showdown, human host, creature feature, serial killer, phantom, filmmaking, gory, danger, homecoming, deadly creature, monster, sasquatch, male nudity, deadly, animal horror ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, supernatural, violence, gory and rivalry mostly in Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Primitive: The Fear Chamber (2009), Mothman (2010), Nailbiter (2013), Abominable (2020), Maneater (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, danger, law enforcement, supernatural, violence, showdown, killer, violent content, supernatural ability, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Mothman (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of friends band together to hide the truth about a mutual friend's tragic death. They soon discover that an evil entity is in pursuit of them.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, danger, murder, creature feature, hidden truth, group of friends, violence, urban legend, creature, psychic, psychic power, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Nailbiter (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting ...
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: family relations, family in danger, deadly creature, forced into action, creature feature, violence, death, monster, serial killer, basement, creature, terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Abominable (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, giant creature, creature, monster, creature feature, giant monster, violence, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, chases and races, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Maneater (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, small town, law enforcement, monster, danger, violence, creature feature, killer animal, creature, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Boggy Creek (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Following the death of her father in a terrible accident, sweet, yet troubled Jennifer and her friends decide to check out her dad's cabin that's located in the deep woods of Boggy Creek, Texas. While staying at said cabin for a week, ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bigfoot, deadly creature, survival, danger, supernatural, legends and myths, found footage, monster, sasquatch, vacation, camping, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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Shapeshifter (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat ...
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: prison, survival, danger, confined, vengeance, supernatural, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, isolation, werewolf, murder, demon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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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63%
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30 Days to Die (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, mentally unstable, mental institution, struggle for survival, danger, murder, violence, strong violent content, survival, violence spree, woman in danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial ...
Style: suspenseful, slasher, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, friends, youth, revenge, psychopath, survival, violence, rivalry, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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The Amityville Murders (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the night of November 13th, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. took a high powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that 'voices' in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, nightmare, mental patient, danger, hearing voices, taunting, hallucination, demon, pandemic, sex in car, house ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 21st century
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 3.3
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The Crypt (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, danger, confined, escapades, supernatural, catacomb, cemetery, crypt, struggle for survival, deadly creature, murder, treasure hunt ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
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53%
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Ritual (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A long time ago Tom loved Lovely. They were married and everything was perfect, at least for a little while. But that was then and this is now. Lovely has just killed a man in cold blood after he tried to drug and kidnap her in a motel. She calls ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, suspense ...
Plot: murder, danger, curses spells and rituals, satanic ritual, hotel, violence, darkness, found footage, black magic, violent content, religions or cults, stranger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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Dead Inside (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Sarah, a mentally-disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends' impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, touching, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, supernatural, danger, mentally unstable, haunted house, buddies, youth, premonition, uncover truth, violence, murder, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
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Grim (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
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Plot: monster, cave, mutant, deadly creature, danger, suburbs, creature, suburban life, chaos and mayhem, gory, chaos, escapades ...
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Exit 38 (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: vampire, danger, curses spells and rituals, special agent, confined, rivalry, law enforcement, supernatural, captivity, good versus evil, save the day, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada
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Savage Harvest 2: October Blood (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tyge Murdock, a successful director of low-budget horror films, has been chasing monsters his whole life. When an actor is accidentally killed on the set of his latest production, Tyge returns to his hometown to reassess his life. But all new ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: supernatural, vengeance, mentally unstable, danger, rivalry, isolation, captivity, homecoming, filmmaking, curses spells and rituals, gory, underground ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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
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Bled (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sai, a young artist living in a downtown warehouse delves into an ancient world of blood and lust. An enigmatic foreigner seduces her to try a long forgotten drug making her the prey of a dimensional vampire who needs her new found hunger for blood ...
Style: suspense, sexy, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, female vampire, deadly creature, danger, parallel world, addiction, imaginary, sex scene, painter, curses spells and rituals, gory ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
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Night Feeders (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Four deer hunters encounter a horde of carnivorous aliens in a remote countryside and fight to survive the night.
Style: rough, bleak, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: evil alien, gory, survival, animal life, alien encounter, danger, supernatural, escapades, violence, monster, alien, ufo ...
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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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Stitch (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Stitch follows the story of grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their best friends for healing advice, who lead them into the deep desert for a weekend ritual meant to ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, family in danger, danger, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, death, violence, family problems, losing-it hero, dealing with death, disfigurement, daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Open Door (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, wish come true, danger, youth, rivalry, curse, murder, group of friends, radio, beauty, teenage life, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Mummy Resurrected (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A team of archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, unleashing a deadly curse from its eternal tomb.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, independent film, psychotronic
Audience: teens
Plot: mummy, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, escapades, danger, rivalry, imaginary, good versus evil, deadly creature, monster, youth, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Beautiful People (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A group of thieves have the tables turned on them during a home invasion. Hidden in the basement they find the remains of secret viral lab experiments gone savagely wrong. Now they must escape before they are infected with a new strain of virus that ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, extreme horror ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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Bio Slime (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Seven misfits are trapped by a flesh eating slime creature. And no TV!
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot: parasite, deadly creature, danger, isolation, confined, murder, body horror, monster, fear, survival, deathtrap, death ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Is the legend of Chupacabran (roughly translated to getsugare) true? Or is it just folklore? Or a madman in latex suit? When Maria Esperanza's uncle and his goats are assaulted and killed, she collects together a team of crypto zoology student ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, funny ...
Plot: found footage, creature feature, deadly creature, uncover truth, supernatural, chupacabra, danger, legend, monster, escapades, gory, urban legend ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Final Curtain (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: college, vengeance, rivalry, murder, college student, actor, theater, rite of passage, backfire, danger, violence, held captive ...
Time: 21st century
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43%
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