Movies like Sideshow 2000

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Sideshow (2000)
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Sideshow (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, underground horror, independent film, weird, cult film
Plot: carnival, supernatural, youth, kidnapping, danger, kids in trouble, gory, curses spells and rituals, exploitation, freakshow, monster, underground, killer clown, freak, feral man, amusement park, body horror, haunted, dwarf, fortune teller, profanity, nudity, school, female nudity, sheriff ...
Time: 90s

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Most similar movies to Sideshow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals, murder and ghost mostly in Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sideshow: Schoolgirls in Chains (1973), Fear Runs Silent (2000), Stitches (2001), Dead Clowns (2004), Baby Blood (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Schoolgirls in Chains (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two deranged brothers, who are under the domineering influence of their crazed mother, kidnap young girls and keep them captive in chains in their basement, where they subject them to depraved "games" that often end in torture and murder.
Style: grindhouse, controversial, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: kidnapping, erotica, women in prison, rape, sexploitation, bondage, basement, sadism, porn, night, captive, sex game ...
Time: 70s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Stitches (2001)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Combining the body parts and skin from her victims, a wicked sorceress stitches together her subjects.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: hidden identity, danger, gory, murder, abduction, kidnapping, hotel, soul, lesbian, lesbian sex, demon, death ...
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 2.3
 516
Dead Clowns (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, killer clown, vengeance, supernatural, clown, gory, small town, circus, evil clown, danger, brutality, dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 6.0
 2K
Baby Blood (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman (Yanka) and begins to demands human blood.
Style: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, controversial, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, murder, pregnancy, body horror, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, mutant, human prey, monster, vampire, baby ...
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 3.3
 1K
Freakshow (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: circus, revenge, mutilation, cons and scams, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, freakshow, danger, killer clown, amusement park, freak ...
Time: 1930s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
 3.6
 646
Born (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty one year old virgin, and wakes up the next morning pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill, for the sake of her ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, mystic ...
Plot: religions or cults, danger, supernatural, gory, supernatural ability, ghost, brutality, exploitation, demon, daughter murders father, held captive, possessed ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 3.5
 608
Death Bed (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, gory, technology gone awry, woman in danger, showbiz, mentally unstable, changing the past or future, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, gold, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, dead, revenge, local legend, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: supernatural, filmmaking, haunted house, ghost, estate, danger, curses spells and rituals, house, supernatural power, actor, trapped in a building, zombie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
49%
 4.0
 710
Shriek (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided ...
Style: slasher, scary, queer horror, independent film, serious ...
Plot: monster, hospital, lesbian, college, beauty, psychopath, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, escapades, rivalry, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 2.8
 524
The Damned (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: vampire, police investigation, danger, zombie, supernatural, amateur detective, heroes, investigation, imaginary, protagonist as suspect, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
 3.4
 657
Death Factory (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility ...
Style: slasher, experimental, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: mutant, violence, strong violent content, danger, zombie, supernatural, experiment gone awry, gory, imaginary, survival, escapades, virus ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.7
 177
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, curses spells and rituals, estrangement, supernatural, mentally unstable, bigfoot, creature, demon, rivalry, showdown, violence, human host ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.7
 824
Witchouse (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 72 min.
Story: On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, scary, spooky ...
Plot: witch, resurrection, evil witch, possessed woman, supernatural ability, supernatural, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, vengeance, danger, youth, demonic possession ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Movie in collections
 2.3
 864
In the Woods (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
Plot: monster, woods, strong violent content, gory, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, supernatural, escapades, danger, deadly creature, ancient mystery, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Plot: imaginary, danger, youth, sex scene, gory, race against time, professor, curses spells and rituals, mother daughter relationship, creature feature, ancient mystery, sexual content ...
Time: 12th century, 21st century
Place: ireland, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, dark, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: living dead, survival, supernatural, danger, isolation, gory, zombie, night of the living dead, infected, undead, zombie attack, virus ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, hotel, supernatural, danger, uncover truth, stalking, supernatural ability, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, master and servant, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.1
 623
Dead & Rotting (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Three prankster buddies release the wrath of an aged witch, Abigail, when they unwittingly become accomplices to the murder of her son. Scheming in anger, the witch seduces the three friends and then uses the men's own ill-born spawn to destroy ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: witchcraft, murder, zombie, evil witch, supernatural, vengeance, buddies, prank, youth, danger, curses spells and rituals, dead ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
 3.9
 356
Aunt Rose (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A trio of ruthless killers seeks refuge in a quiet suburban home, only to discover a destructive force that could spell their doom in this blood-drenched frightener from director James Tucker. They thought they had found the perfect hideout, but ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, danger, hostage, supernatural ability, criminal heroes, gory, supernatural power, motel, teenager, home invasion, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Torture Chamber (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 13-year-old Jimmy Morgan is possessed by an evil too powerful to be exorcised by any religion. After escaping from a mental institution, Jimmy is back with a vengeance - and an army of children who follow his every murderous desire.
Style: suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: evil, supernatural, reincarnation, danger, mentally unstable, family in danger, religions or cults, clergy, ghost, possession, hell, evil child ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.5
 2K
Dead Souls (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, farm, life turned upside down, mysterious character, uncover truth, teenage life, supernatural, starting over, orphan, family problems, danger, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.4
 1K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.7
 431
Talisman (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: As the millenium draws near, an evil being awakens. Fused to an ancient Talisman for centuries -- Theriel, the Black Angel is summoned from his resting place to usher in the end of the world. The ghastly messenger must claim seven human sacrifices ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, serious, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot: monster, gay, new year, homoeroticism, ritual, demon, apocalypse, human sacrifice, bullying, troubled teen, boys' school, private school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 2.5
 200
Blood Legend (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find ...
Style: serious, scary, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
Plot: supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, escapades, vengeance, school, hopes, imaginary, youth, rivalry, prank ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
Style: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, isolation, danger, hiking, teenager, carnival, killer clown, murder, violence, psychopath, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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