Movies like Long Weekend 1978

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Long Weekend (1978)
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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, retro, atmospheric, depressing, surreal, disturbing, splatter, art house ...
Plot: camping, killing an animal, topless woman, animal attack, wilderness, expedition, supernatural, camp, beach, creature feature, travel, monster, nature, forest, macabre, mental disorder, storm, sea monster, vacation, pagan, octopus, stoner, holiday, vengeance, holiday horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, new zealand
Keyword: attack

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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, survival, deadly, death, blood, monster and murder mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Long Weekend: Road Games (1981), Willow Creek (2013), Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010), Friday the 13th (1980), The Cabin in the Woods (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Long Weekend (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mother Nature gets revenge on some careless campers in this remastered version of the Australian horror classic.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: forces of nature, dangerous animal, survival, nature, couples, danger, wilderness, family problems, isolation, crumbling marriage, creature feature, camp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 9K
Road Games (1981)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style: slasher, road movie, suspense, psychotronic, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, truck driver, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, van, mysterious villain, hitchhiker, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
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61%
 5.1
 13K
Willow Creek (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
Style: scary, mockumentary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, forest, creature feature, sasquatch, camping, cryptozoology, lost in the woods, bigfoot, woods, interview, monster, slow burn ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A platoon of eagles and vultures attacks the residents of a small town. Many people die. It's not known what caused the flying menace to attack. Two people manage to fight back, but will they survive Birdemic?
Style: surreal, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, psychological ...
Plot: bird attack, bird, animal attack, danger, confined, survival, driving, couples, evacuation, family relations, small town life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 6.4
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, maniac, gory, murder, revenge, disturbed individual, summer, summer camp, psychopath, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.2
 78K
Wolf Creek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: massacre, torture, psychopath, serial killer, psycho killer, sadistic horror, macabre, backwoods, gory, killer, sadistic killer, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.7
 27K
Devil's Pass (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, found footage, supernatural, snow, mountain, danger, secrets, uncover truth, winter, mountain climbing, murder, missing person ...
Time: year 1980, 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 6.1
 51K
Cujo (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style: tense, suspense, scary, natural horror, serious ...
Plot: dog, rabies, dangerous animal, macabre, boy, monster, stephen king, blood, creature feature, brutality, killer dog, survival ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.9
 19K
The Children (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents
Style: scary, slasher, christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: killer child, christmas, evil child, creepy child, snow, epidemic, winter, family in danger, creepy kid, deadly virus, violence spree, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.2
 4K
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, stylized, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, exploitation, diary, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, inheritance, youth, danger, female protagonist, old woman, old man ...
Time: 80s
Place: oceania, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.6
 1K
Solo (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A teenage girl is terrorized when she spends two nights alone on a remote island as part of her camp counselor initiation.
Style: scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: camping, wilderness, woman in danger, camp counselor, murder, survival, danger, isolation, nightmare, camp, confined, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.8
 21K
The Reef (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, shark, survival, ocean, creature feature, shark attack, killer shark, panic, dangerous animal, diving, killer animal, boat ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.6
 61K
47 Meters Down (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, natural horror, exciting ...
Plot: shark, shark attack, survival, ocean, creature feature, animal attack, killer animal, great white shark, underwater, diver, rescue, killer shark ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: mexico, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.2
 3K
The Slayer (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
Style: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying ...
Plot: island, serial killer, nightmare, monster, unknown killer, murder, gory, beach, dream, fear, creature, american horror ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil child, killer child, island, children, murder, pregnancy, isolation, danger, haunted by the past, manhunt, stranded, creepy child ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.8
 2K
Thirst (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to ...
Style: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, serious ...
Plot: vampire, kidnapping, occult, supernatural, blood, brainwashing, exploitation, nurse, swimming pool, religion, paranormal, macabre ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 5.8
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The Tunnel (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the ...
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, rough, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, investigation, tunnel, underground, creature, survival, uncover truth, missing person, journalism, hidden truth, urban legend, trapped ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.2
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Rogue (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, scenic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: crocodile, monster, animal attack, gory, dangerous animal, survival horror, killer animal, creature, beast, isolation, survival, creature feature ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.4
 41K
Turistas (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jungle, survival, torture, gory, murder, youth, strong violent content, transplant, violence, brutality, chase, group of friends ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.1
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In the Earth (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: virus, survival horror, mushroom, forest, woods, wilderness, alchemy, murder, scientist, scout, plague, insanity ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Witches in the Woods (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, splatter, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, survival, danger, youth, murder, friendship, snow, woods, witch, witchcraft, vacation gone wrong, backwoods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Killing Ground (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens, toddlers
Plot: camping, rape, backwoods, serial killer, survival horror, violence, dog, doctor, rape and murder, husband wife relationship, wilderness, murder ...
Place: oceania, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.3
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Uninhabited (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, horrifying, psychological
Plot: island, couples, ghost, couple relations, supernatural, danger, camping, young lovers, confined, isolation, sailing, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Black Water (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, survival, animal attack, swamp, trapped, tourist, couples, shark, killer animal, creature, vacation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Last Winter (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, tense, serious ...
Plot: snow, oil company, survival, sanity, hallucination, american football, male nudity, monster, isolation, danger, supernatural ability, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1986, year 1968
Place: usa, mississippi, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.2
 2K
Crush (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Julian is perfectly happy in his relationship with the pretty blond Clare. That is, until he meets Anna, a dark-haired, bikini-clad beauty who he encounters while he is house-sitting. Passion reigns in their relationship, and soon Julian learns that ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, sexy, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, stalking, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, cheating boyfriend, teenage life, couples, power relations, youth, danger, dishonesty, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes ...
Style: scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, ship, supernatural horror, ghost ship, survival, macabre, gory, danger, twists and turns, ocean, greed ...
Time: year 2002, year 1962, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, alaska
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50%
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