Movies like The Night Stalker

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The Night Stalker (1972)
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The Night Stalker (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He's hot on the trail, but nobody believes him. His editor thinks he's nuts and the police think he's a hindrance in the investigation, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hand.
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, apocalyptic, creepy, spooky, crime thriller, thrilling, tense, serious ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, serial killer, occult, politics, dracula, reporter, macabre, stalker, villain, 666, investigation, murder, stalking, police investigation, zombie, psychopath, journalism, chases and races, who done it, media, danger, law enforcement, false accusation, police detective ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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Most similar movies to The Night Stalker

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and slasher films with plots about murder, serial killer, supernatural, danger, deadly, investigation and death mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Night Stalker: The Norliss Tapes (1973), Drive In Massacre (1976), The Wizard of Gore (2007), Severed (2002), The Silent Scream (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Night Strangler (1973)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After being run out of Las Vegas, Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a ...
Style: scary, cult horror, spooky, slasher, serious ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, occult, reporter, politics, investigative reporter, stalking, woman in danger, who done it, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 70s
Place: seattle, usa, las vegas, washington state, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Norliss Tapes (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen ...
Style: creepy, classic horror, spooky, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, reporter, vampire, zombie, occult, ghost, serial killer, black magic, investigation, newspaper, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter—Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin—who investigated mysterious crimes with ...
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, serious, retro ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supernatural, monster, reporter, dangerous animal, supernatural ability, ordinary person, mummy, danger, who done it, uncover truth, imaginary, journalism ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, chicago, las vegas, nevada, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
22%
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The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, magician, hypnosis, magic, psychopath, mind game, police investigation, supernatural, mysterious character, wizards and magicians, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Night Flier (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that ...
Style: scary, splatter, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot: vampire, reporter, supernatural, monster, airplane, stephen king, professional rivalry, writers, macabre, murder, serial killer, zombie ...
Time: 90s
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20%
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Severed (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, supernatural, rivalry, who done it, police detective, master criminal, police investigation, private detective, bounty hunter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Silent Scream (1979)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college student, murder, danger, haunted house, serial murder, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, campus ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
19%
 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 ⇓
19%
Candie's Harem (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Candie is a bisexual who has a perfect setup with multiple partners until everyone starts dying around her.
Style: slasher, erotic, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: erotica, whodunit, death, murder, nude, female protagonist, characters killed one by one, obsession, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, creepy, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, youth, murder, hidden truth, blood, urban legend, characters killed one by one, psychopath, small town, teenager, secret, high school ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1997, 20th century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Scream 3 (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, splatter ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, murder, filmmaking, telephone call, psychopath, mind game, vengeance, hollywood, serial murder, blood ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Last Broadcast (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect ...
Style: mockumentary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, danger, murder, forest, uncover truth, supernatural, amateur detective, ghost, obsessive quest, satellite, psycho, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to try and finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, queer horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, lesbianism, forest, violent, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, lesbian, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, terror ...
Time: 2020s, year 1978, year 1994, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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 ⇓
18%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
One Missed Call (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, creepy, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, hospital, investigation, uncover truth, cowardice, friendship, delusion, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, spirit ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Retribution (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, crime drama ...
Plot: ghost, serial killer, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, supernatural power, supernatural, mysterious character, psychopath, who done it, rivalry, danger ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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 ⇓
18%
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past ...
Style: slasher, suspense, spooky, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, female protagonist, murder, twists and turns, blood, girl, home invasion, small town, killing spree, psychopath, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, danger, demon, ghost, haunted house, found footage, curses spells and rituals, murder, demonic possession, twists and turns, religions or cults, investigation ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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The Dark Half (1993)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: book, doppelganger, alter ego, supernatural, lookalikes, blackmail, writers, twins, murder, life philosophy, husband wife relationship, dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Stoker Hills (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three students filming a horror movie stumble upon something much worse, and their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera that was left behind.
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, partners against crime, deadly creature, uncover truth, danger, peril, paranormal investigation, youth, violence, rescue, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Blood Widow (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, vampire, strong violent content, supernatural, murder, secret organization, brutality, supernatural power, investigation, arizona desert, psychopath
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Yearly Harvest (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young journalist named Jin Maddison has traced the origin of many Christmas traditions to a remote town in the Midwest called Selah. Years ago another famous journalist died in an accident there while investigating the same story. Jin travels to ...
Style: christmas horror, suspense, bleak, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: christmas, serial killer, missing child, children, murder investigation, woman in danger, xmas, criminal, brutality, manhunt, sadistic psychopath, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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 ⇓
17%
The Woman in Black (1989)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, afterlife, haunted house, mysterious character, uncover truth, murder, haunted by the past, who done it, danger, haunted, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 4.4
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The Mangler (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry happens, detective John Hunton investigates. While he tries to solve the mystery, Bill Gartley, the owner, wants to find new victims for his machine.
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Plot: gory, macabre, psychopath, stephen king, monster, supernatural, uncover truth, man versus machine, murder, ghost, race against time, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 3.3
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The Barn (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A serial killer strikes Sugar Grove, Virginia. A rising journalist comes to town to cover the story : her investigation will soon lead her to the town's darkest secret, at her own risks.
Style: bleak, scary, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder investigation, woman in danger, violent, evidence, psychopath, journalism, characters in danger, chase, masked killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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