Movies like The Pit and the Pendulum 2009
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The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, erotic, surprise ending, tense, suspense, captivating, melancholic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
hypnotist, gay, supernatural, college, experiment gone awry, disorder, gory, student life, danger, confined, mad scientist, experiment, human experiment, lesbian, bare chested male, lgbt, edgar allan poe, terrorism, captivity, gays and lesbians, isolation, violent content, love, time, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Pit and the Pendulum
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, gory, supernatural, isolation and confined mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Pit and the Pendulum: Subject Two (2006), House of Usher (2008), The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014), Bloodwork (2012), The Final Patient (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again
Style:
rough, serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
dying repeatedly, murder, mad scientist, death wish, doctors and patients, disorder, power relations, danger, supernatural, rocky mountains, doctor patient relationship, frankenstein ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that ...
Style:
gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
gay, haunted house, estate, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, danger, ghost, murder, secret, edgar allan poe, male nudity, man in underwear ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, psychological, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, ghost, psychology, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, haunted by the past, gory, violence, haunting, experiment, memory ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 21st century
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
human experiment, survival, experiment gone awry, danger, hospital, isolation, mind game, attempted rape, self healing, buddies, medicine, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When retired physician Daniel Green (Bill Cobbs, Night at the Museum) lifts a 5-ton farm tractor off a boy trapped beneath, the enigma of his supernatural strength piques the curiosity of two med students passing through town. Visiting the old ...
Style:
suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot:
supernatural, addiction, small town, experiment gone awry, medical school, isolation, confined, life is a bitch, danger, superhuman powers, old age, american horror ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
seance, morgue, ouija board, ghost, danger, supernatural, human host, friendship, ouija, demonic possession, death, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, confined, isolation, law enforcement, danger, ghost, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, haunted house, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths
Style:
disturbing, rough, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, zombie, psychopath, experiment gone awry, confined, mad scientist, doctors and patients, rescue, power relations, gory, isolation, danger ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this supernatural take on The Fast and the Furious, college student Jesse returns home only to find that his old stomping ground has been overrun by a gang of street racers that dabbles in the black arts. But things take a bloody turn for the ...
Style:
serious, rough, scary, slasher, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, chase, serial killer, supernatural, supernatural ability, vigilantism, terrorism, stalking, hidden identity, deadly creature, danger, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
Style:
homoerotic, erotic, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, imaginary, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, rivalry, good versus evil, supernatural ability, escapades, danger, youth, high school ...
Time:
middle ages, 21st century
Similarity:
65%
574
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition.
Style:
suspenseful, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ancient mystery, captivity, danger, store, escapades, struggle for survival, murder, violence, rivalry, love triangle, writer's life, boss and employee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, queer horror ...
Plot:
werewolf, prison, supernatural, erotica, danger, deadly creature, dangerous animal, confined, rivalry, violence, women in prison, women's prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, college, afterlife, supernatural, buddies, genie, ghost, best friend, murder, paranormal, devil, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
missing person, serial killer, psychopath, woman in danger, survival, obsession, confined, isolation, captivity, danger, master criminal, rivalry ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassidy is a senior at a NYC college and he's trying to balance the demands of school, his role as big brother to Jessica, a freshman at the same school and his role as best buddy to horn-dog Mike with his emerging feelings of attraction to ...
Style:
serious, slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, serial killer, gay, college, murder, gay athlete, psychopath, couples, survival, youth, supernatural, student life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Three girls take a pre-college trip to a cabin in the woods. Their night is interrupted by a visitor who, they begin to believe, may have killed a babysitter some years before. An original twist on the teens-in-peril film.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
survival, captivity, youth, danger, confined, isolation, wilderness, teenage life, friendship, woods, lesbian relationship, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young couple's weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the caretaker.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
family in danger, survival, supernatural, isolation, captivity, gory, wilderness, farm, vacation, creepy kid, porn, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real ...
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, twists and turns, ghost, alternate reality, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Halloween in West Hollywood, two guys making out in a park are interrupted by a serial killer. Later that night, a group of gay kids decide to visit to the site of the murders.
Style:
slasher, homoerotic, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, killer, gay, halloween party, lgbt, murder, stalking, gory, sex horror, bare chested male, holiday horror ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A group of friends are stalked by a mysterious knife-wielding murderess as they gather at the home of their late friend to hear the reading of his will, and participate in a morbid treasure hunt for the key to his vast fortune.
Style:
homoerotic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
danger, friends, rivalry, last wish, riddles and clues, murder, funeral, homosexual subtext, maniac, gay, gay subtext, mansion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When theater major Leah, brings home the special someone in her life to meet her mom, Julie, the family is met with a surprise when Pearl comes to the door. Julie tries to embrace the idea of Leah’s new love interest, but she can’t shake the ...
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
lesbian vampire, female vampire, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian, lesbian sex, lesbian seduction, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, vampire, lesbian friend, lesbian couple, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
797
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
I Am ZoZo is a psychological thriller about five young people who play with a Ouija board on Halloween and attract the attention of a malevolent demon. The film is based on real experiences with an ancient and malevolent spirit called ZoZo that ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
ouija board, halloween, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, spirit, curses spells and rituals, danger, buddies, island, ouija, death ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To ...
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hotel, supernatural, ghost, captivity, survival, gory, murder, isolation, danger, riddles and clues, buddies, supernatural ability ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, serial killer, danger, violence, black bra, female nudity, killer, violent content, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style:
scary, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, torture, murder, group of friends, mind game, psycho killer, trap, trapped, female nudity, game of death, friendship, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ryan has been plagued with nightmares since the night his sister Amy went missing 8 years earlier after playing the game "Bloody Mary." Amy had stumbled onto a website on the Internet (www.marked4mary.com) about a witch called Bloody Mary ...
Style:
suspense, scary, slasher, serious
Plot:
college, supernatural, afterlife, ghost, priest, monster, gory, curses spells and rituals, danger, mentally unstable, clergy, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, androids and robots, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, supernatural, danger, ghost, confined, murder, gory, isolation, campus, haunted, mansion, college ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, europe
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, strong violent content, woods, survival, isolation, confined, murder, group of friends, danger, trap, female nudity, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
63%
630
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
danger, mentally unstable, isolation, murder, paranoia, country house, bad girl, railway, woman with a gun, mental illness, strong female presence, writer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
63%
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