Movies like Willard 1971

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Willard (1971)
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Willard (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of friends) However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, grindhouse, controversial, classic horror, tense, serious ...
Plot: revenge, danger, exploitation, eaten alive, rat, psychopath, murder, dangerous animal, animal attack, investigation, obsession, misfit, social misfits, animal life, workplace, creature feature, violence, domineering mother, killer animal, virus, agent, police, death, insect, vigilante ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Keyword: attack

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Most similar movies to Willard

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about danger, murder, deadly, violence, revenge, vengeance and serial killer mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Willard: Graveyard Shift (1990), Ben (1972), Nightwing (1979), Freakshow (2007), Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Graveyard Shift (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, slasher, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rat, supernatural, creature, gory, twists and turns, uncover truth, survival, deadly creature, dangerous animal, rescue, escapades, boss and employee ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: maine, usa, new england
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100%
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Ben (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, natural horror ...
Plot: rat, death, exploitation, boy, animal attack, survival horror, dangerous animal, friendship, danger, terror, violence, eaten alive ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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Willard (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, suspense, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Plot: rat, dangerous animal, vengeance, workplace, loner, psychopath, misfit, greed, brutality, obsession, loneliness, boss and employee ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
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Nightwing (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, scary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer animal, animal attack, native american, vampire, killer bat, native, cave, tiny, insect, apocalypse, redsploitation, nature ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
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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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
And Then You Die! (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right and everything falls apart, everyone is out to get you and there isn't a damn thing you can do....or is there! Life's a bitch!...And then YOU die! A movie about revenge, punishment ...
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: underground, revenge, murder, violence, punishment, payback, death, psychopath, brutality, obsession, danger, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.8
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Croc (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A large man-eating crocodile terrorizes tourists and locals near Krabi, in Thailand. Michael Madsen plays a hunter stalking the immense reptile, while sub-plots include a rivalry between a foreigner, who owns a crocodile-farm, and a Thai man who ...
Style: suspense, natural horror, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: crocodile, alligator, killer animal, danger, dangerous animal, animal attack, rivalry, cons and scams, creature feature, survival, monster, creature ...
Time: jurassic
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
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Squirm (1976)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror, suspense ...
Plot: deadly creature, worm, small town, investigation, killer animal, disaster, animal attack, survival, rescue, battles, environmentalism, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: georgia, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Giving Up Forever (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Jack Adolf, a 38 year old man with a history of being rejected by women seeks revenge against the people who have bullied him.
Style: scary, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: revenge, woman in danger, violence, murder, psychopath, brutality, danger, serial killer, vengeance, maniac, blood, death ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Birds II: Land's End (1994)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Birds go berserk and turn against mankind.
Style: natural horror, dark, serious, psychological, scary ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bird attack, killer animal, animal attack, bird, creature, nature, villain, exploitation, insect, lighthouse, death of son, dangerous animal ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
 18
Movie Night (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the small suburban hood of Nukaville, New Jersey lives the story of young Jerry Rizzo, a 15 year old who can't get enough of horror films. One day after a fatal mistake from one of the bullies at school turns Jerry's path into a brutal ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school student, murder, killer, massacre, death, child murderess, teenager, danger, psychopath, brutality, vengeance, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
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Grotesque (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: murder, mutant, vengeance, danger, gang, chase, investigation, violence, maniac, feral man, american horror, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Teacher Shortage (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What is supposed to be an educational and collaborative weekend professional development session for the English Department of Prescott High School instead turns into a blood soaked nightmare when a masked killer targets them.
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: high school student, murder, maniac, psychopath, serial murder, homicidal maniac, masked killer, high school, revenge, blood, violence, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dead Nude Girls (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A man obsessed with bird-watching takes on a new hobby, killing young ladies.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder of a nude woman, murder, psychopath, blood, serial murder, sexploitation, exploitation, abduction, woman in danger, danger, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
All My Friends Are Dead (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: When a girl has her friends come along with her to scatter her father's ashes at the old family farm, strange things begin to happen. A warm campfire and scary stories is only the beginning to a night she'll never forget.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot: high school student, death, friends, murder, violence, revenge, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, brutality, woman in danger, danger ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Bad Nun: Deadly Vows (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Catherine and her family recently moved into a converted church. Upon moving in, they have been harassed by an unknown religious stalker, claiming them to be sinners. Pamela, Catherine's grandmother soon begins to reveal she has secrets hidden ...
Style: bleak, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, pursuit, chase, masked killer, violent, obsession, serial killer, brutality, psychopath, danger, violence, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Rough Cut (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: An Independent film director on the edge loses his funding and his marriage. In order to fulfill his destiny with no budget, he must set the scenes and abduct his cast. Film director or homicidal maniac? Castings open and he is the man to get you ...
Style: psychotronic, psychological, tense, scary, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, infidelity, revenge, death, psycho, psycho killer, filmmaker, psychopath, obsession, danger, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 4.1
 294
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 ⇓
21%
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The Uncanny (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Style: anthology, psychotronic, grindhouse, natural horror, dark fairy tale ...
Plot: cat, animal attack, killer animal, canuxploitation, darkness, deadly creature, ailurophobia, evil child, conspiracy, orphan, murder, pet cat ...
Time: 70s, 1910s, 1930s, year 1977, year 1936 ...
Place: london, canada, europe, england, montreal ...
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20%
 3.1
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Knock Knock (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, small town, vengeance, who done it, danger, investigation, mortician, rivalry, ghost, high school, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.1
 159
Disturbed (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The quiet town of Quartz Hill is about to experience the worst night of the town's history. A notorious killer has escaped from death row with one thought on his mind. Revenge.
Style: psychological, slasher, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, rivalry, psychopath, danger, stalking, murder, rape, teenage life, fugitives, criminal's revenge, prison ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.3
 497
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
20%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 1.6
 393
Cuties (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of gay teenagers are picked off by a mysterious killer during the first month of their senior year, while insecure boy Micah goes through a crisis of self-worth as he can't grasp why the killer has no interest in coming after him.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, tense, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: high school student, teenager, gay, gay slur, revenge, death, obsession, murder, friendship, violence, chase, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 2.7
 679
Fear Level (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Increased level of fear, six colliding stories, one roller coaster ride of emotions and terror. What would you do if you caught your significant other in the act or was face to face with your abductors? With twists and turns at every corner you will ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, bleak ...
Plot: entertainment, clown, evil clown, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, murder, revenge, friendship, violence, fear, masked killer, friends, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 78
Backstabber (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Employees attending an extreme team-building function for the weekend find new meaning in teamwork, thinking outside the box, and risk management as they fight for survival from a deranged killer bent on revenge.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, revenge, murder, brutality, pursuit, maniac, violence, young woman, threat, characters killed one by one, woman in danger, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 3.7
 416
Pig (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A man lives in a caravan in the desert with Savannah, a mentally handicapped woman he keeps in a cage. He has abducted several people and keeps them prisoner.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: violence, serial killer, murder, maniac, disguise, serial murder, vengeance, homicidal maniac, chase, killing spree, society, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 3.3
 741
Hallows' Eve (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Years after a tragic accident leaves a young child scarred for life, the people responsible pay - with their lives.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: halloween, terrorism, danger, farm, youth, revenge, maniac, violence, female masturbation, prank, haunted house, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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