Movies like Penny Dreadful 2006

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Penny Dreadful (2006)
 4.8
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Penny Dreadful (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, dark, suspense, horrifying, independent film, crying, psychological
Plot: phobia, isolation, danger, kidnapping, on the road, psychopath, family relations, doctors and patients, survival, trapped, redneck, hitchhiker, storm, terror, serial killer, ghost, porn, winter, illness, medical, driver, taxi, mental illness, manipulation, road trip ...
Time: contemporary
Keyword: attack, creep

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Most similar movies to Penny Dreadful

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, survival, serial killer, psychopath and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Penny Dreadful: Wind Chill (2007), Psycho (1998), Curve (2015), Gothika (2003), Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wind Chill (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, winter, danger, on the road, road trip, frostbite, snow, wilderness, haunted, haunting, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 2000s, 50s, year 1953 ...
Place: pennsylvania
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100%
 4.6
 51K
Psycho (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: psychopath, motel, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, mental illness, serial killer, secret ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 12K
Curve (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: trapped, car breakdown, hitchhiker, psychopath, trap, survival, maniac, on the road, fear, serial killer, female protagonist, fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 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 ⇓
52%
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Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, gas station, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, strong violent content, escapades, on the road, religious fanatic, gory, twins ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Hills Run Red (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Style: slasher, rough, bloody, splatter, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, gory, torture, masked killer, self mutilation, murder, blood, danger, wilderness, corpse, deliberate cruelty ...
Time: year 2009, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.1
 142K
The Strangers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, danger, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, youth, rivalry, haunted by the past, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Hitchhiker (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: psychopath, gory, on the road, mind game, confined, danger, woman in danger, isolation, desert, murder, driver, taxi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, hitchhiker, mind game, on the road, woman in danger, survival, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, police investigation, murder ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
 156K
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 ⇓
49%
 4.3
 3K
Octane (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson (Madeleine Stowe) is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat (Mischa Barton), down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker (Bijou ...
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: road trip, nightmare, parents and children, psychopath, teenage life, gory, family relations, disorder, violence spree, danger, chase, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.2
 2K
Evil Things (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, stalking, danger, woods, missing person, murder, violence, group of friends, survival, trap, fear, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.8
 809
Lost Signal (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, dark, scary ...
Plot: danger, stalking, isolation, confined, friendship, survival, wilderness, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, blood, new year ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Black Cadillac (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: car chase, mind game, friendship, danger, escapades, chase, survival, murder, rivalry, car, redneck, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Initiation (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, ritual, murder, sorority, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, danger, campus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, gory, crazy, psycho killer, lake, maniac, serial murder, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 5.5
 116K
Friday the 13th (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: psychopath, gory, masked killer, group of friends, woods, camp, brutality, maniac, danger, massacre, death, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place: texas, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 45K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.1
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Reeker (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.
Style: suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, psychopath, youth, confined, danger, gory, murder, characters killed one by one, heaven and hell, monster, terror ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.2
 211K
Saw III (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, serial killer, game of death, trap, mind game, sadism, psychopath, brutality, gory, mutilation, sadistic horror, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 3.9
 2K
Crowsnest (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot: found footage, on the road, murder, survival, isolation, buddies, confined, danger, friendship, wilderness, cannibalism, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Plasterhead (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, supernatural, danger, vengeance, survival, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, feral man, diner, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 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 ⇓
47%
Madison County (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, woods, uncover truth, danger, redneck, masked killer, murder, violence, animal mask, pig killer, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.8
 2K
Treehouse (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: kidnapping, survival, danger, woods, violent content, teenager, psychopath, graphic violence, death, found footage, serial killer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.5
 12K
Rest Stop (2006)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The film follows Nicole Carrow, a young woman who is threatened by a maniac serial killer, after her boyfriend Jess, is abducted in a rest stop.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woman in danger, serial killer, survival, gory, danger, kidnapped, redneck, chase, isolation, on the road, hostage, torture ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, hospital, mental institution, patient, danger, isolation, doctors and patients, obsession, mind game, losing-it hero, mad scientist ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Somebody Help Me (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: supernatural, survival, confined, danger, gory, captivity, isolation, black, serial killer, blaxploitation, scared, best friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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