Movies like Next of Kin 1982

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Next of Kin (1982)
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Next of Kin (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, bloody, phantasmagoric, serious, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: ghost, exploitation, diary, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, inheritance, youth, danger, old man, female protagonist, old woman, elderly, aging, violence, serial killer, dream, survival, killer, macabre, cemetery, retirement home, female psychopath, haunting, sex scene ...
Time: 80s
Place: oceania, australia
Keyword: australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and slasher films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, ghost, murder, blood and death mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Next of Kin: Dead & Buried (1981), Lisa and the Devil (1973), Carnival of Souls (1962), The Grudge (2004), Scream (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dead & Buried (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, small town, zombie, murder, violence, serial killer, monster, exploitation, undead, body horror, living dead, hospital ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, witchcraft, tourist, murder, haunted by the past, destiny, woman in danger, countryside, surrealism, vacation, witch, house ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style: atmospheric, cult classic, gothic, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: carnival, ghost, female protagonist, supernatural, zombie, afterlife, amusement park, car accident, surrealism, spirit, macabre, visceral ...
Time: year 1962
Place: salt lake city utah, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 7.4
 386K
Scream (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, small town, maniac, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, twists and turns, violent ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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73%
 5.5
 13K
The Abandoned (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts (including her own!) ...
Style: suspense, psychological, demonic, stylized, intense ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, insanity, ghost, zombie, gory, family relations, confined, haunted, danger, survival ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 5.7
 3K
The Pit (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, cult horror ...
Plot: killer child, vengeance, forest, monster, evil child, danger, supernatural, violence spree, rivalry, canuxploitation, violence, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 5.4
 101K
The Ring Two (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, creepy, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, macabre, ghost, supernatural horror, evil child, nightmare, investigation, mental institution, family problems, supernatural ability, small town, scared ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: astoria oregon, oregon, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The House of the Devil (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, satanic ...
Plot: supernatural, ritual, satanic cult, witchcraft, macabre, female protagonist, devil, lunar eclipse, satanic ritual, gory, blood, babysitter ...
Time: 80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Alison's Birthday (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, detective
Plot: body swapping, occult, body swap, possession, ouija board, switching bodies, exorcism, law enforcer, demon, medical, evil child, birthday ...
Place: oceania, australia, new south wales, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.2
 77K
Ring (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, investigation, macabre, curse, supernatural horror, urban legend, journalist, woman in danger, telephone call, danger, haunting ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
A Real Friend (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 73 min.
Story: The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a ...
Style: surreal, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: youth, school, supernatural, haunted by the past, deadly creature, social misfits, danger, family relations, figment, house, parents and children, chainsaw ...
Time: 21st century
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63%
 7.1
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The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, dark, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, macabre, supernatural, serial killer, demon, chase, scarecrow, dead teenager, deadly creature, characters murdered one by one, scared, death ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida
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61%
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 13K
Mirrors 2 (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, splatter ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, mentally unstable, vengeance, supernatural power, murder, survival, eye, supernatural horror, deep south, freak, exploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Altar (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Style: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, esoteric ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, vengeance, danger, murder, isolation, on the run, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, haunted, occult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An 18th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
Style: scary, gothic, gothic horror, psychological, rough ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, evil child, investigation, uncover truth, witch, village, haunted by the past, vengeance, mysterious character, danger, occult ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 1966, 20th century
Place: romania, europe
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57%
 4.6
 2K
Demonia (1990)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns whom were murdered 500 years earlier and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
Style: suspense, dark, erotic, surreal, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, church, demon, sex scene, nunsploitation, folk horror, exploitation, monastery, convent, anti hero, religions or cults ...
Time: 16th century
Place: sicily, canada, europe, italy, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 7.1
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The Changeling (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
Style: atmospheric, suspense, gothic, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, isolated house, supernatural, mansion, senator, murder, macabre, investigation, haunted by the past, revenge, musician ...
Time: victorian era, year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place: seattle, new york, usa, washington d.c., new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.7
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The Fog (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, ghost, fog, supernatural, island, betrayal, death, justice, prophecy, danger, haunted by the past, disaster ...
Time: year 2005
Place: california, usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
One Missed Call (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: macabre, telephone call, hospital, urban legend, death, supernatural, child abuse, spirit, good versus evil, mysterious death, vengeance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Drive In Massacre (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, murder investigation, gory, danger, stalking, police chase, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style: surreal, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, investigation, psychopath, female psychopath, chimpanzee, boarding school, telepathy, malice, psychic power, mysticism ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, alps, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Deep Red (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder mystery, psychopath, visceral, supernatural, danger, female psychopath, mental illness, intrigue, manic, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, australia, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Reincarnation (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, ghost, mental institution, reincarnation, small town, haunted by the past, danger, vengeance, gory, grudge, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1970
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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47%
 6.3
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Scream 2 (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, killer, college, serial murder, mystery killer, villain, strong female lead, blood, murder, psychopath, masked killer, whodunit ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, afterlife, curse, investigation, vengeance, journalism, danger, supernatural, teenage life, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, cell phone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.4
 4K
The Pact II (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, ghost, supernatural, haunted by the past, woman in danger, danger, violence, woman, haunted, haunted house, home invasion, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.5
 6K
Long Weekend (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Style: slasher, scary, natural horror, atmospheric, depressing ...
Plot: camping, killing an animal, topless woman, animal attack, wilderness, expedition, creature feature, supernatural, beach, camp, storm, forest ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.8
 119K
Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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