Movies like Pinwheel

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Pinwheel (2017)
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Pinwheel (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A decade after her mother's murder, Riley Canterbury must return home, after her neglectful, carnival owner father has gone missing. She soon realizes things in this small New England town are much stranger and sinister than she remembered.
Plot: carnival, amusement park, cursed object, violence, profanity, blood, caucasian, swearing, apartment, strong language

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Most similar movies to Pinwheel

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, independent film, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about blood, violence, murder, gore, amusement park, serial killer and female nudity mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like Pinwheel: Evil Night (1992), Carnival of Blood (1970), Frightworld (2006), Club Vampire (1998), Freakshow (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Evil Night (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A group of rich college brats conspire to play a prank on Jimmy Fisher, the school nerd. But when Jimmy ends up unconscious, the co-eds leave him and head out to a party. What they don't realize is that, when Jimmy wakes up, the evil inside of ...
Style: slasher, slasher horror
Plot: killer clown, serial killer, killer, amusement park, prank, stalker, violence, blood, revenge, murder, psychopath, psycho killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Carnival of Blood (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, slasher horror, surprise ending
Plot: serial killer, amusement park, exploitation, carnival, decapitation, murder, psychopath, death, killer, murderer, haunted, 666 ...
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
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91%
 2.1
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Frightworld (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Nine people find themselves trapped in a warehouse that contains the remains of the old Frightworld Amusement Park - a place haunted by the spirit of Verden Fell, a serial killer who died there a year before.
Style: slasher, suspense, independent film
Plot: supernatural power, serial murder, supernatural serial murderer, psycho killer, murder, nudity, psychopath, killer, supernatural, bare breasts, blood, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Vena Norris and her parents get jobs at Mr. Malatesta's carnival running a midway games booth. But they are really part of the traveling show circuit under incredibly false pretenses. Vena's brother disappeared one night while visiting the ...
Style: spooky, atmospheric, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot: exploitation, amusement park, cannibal, haunted, freak, cannibalism, carnage, ghoul, carnival, monster, psychedelia, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 2.9
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Club Vampire (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Enter the club where your wildest desire and most frightening dreams come true. The price of admission is your soul.
Style: gothic, independent film
Plot: vampire, strip club, stripper, club, dracula, blood, nudity, female nudity, person on fire, decapitation, dwarf, caucasian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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
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68%
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Sideshow (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, underground horror, suspense ...
Plot: carnival, supernatural, danger, youth, kids in trouble, kidnapping, gory, curses spells and rituals, exploitation, freakshow, killer clown, amusement park ...
Time: 90s
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65%
One by One: Death's Door (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of unsuspecting teens face a railroad reaper in his desert carnival.
Style: slasher, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, isolation, danger, hiking, teenager, carnival, killer clown, murder, violence, psychopath, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Sadisticum (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Sadisticum tells the story of a man for whom there seems to be only one purpose in life, the torture and killing of others. At age 17, he has already killed two people. But he manages to suppress his appetite for many years. Half of his life he ...
Plot: torture, violence, blood, extreme violence, serial killer, murder, police, gore, gun, rope
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58%
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Parts Unknown (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After putting their bodies on the line for countless years, a family of professional wrestlers seek a brand new way to satisfy an impeccable bloodlust.
Plot: wrestling, women's wrestling, fan, female wrestler, wrestler, fight, blood, violence, wrestling ring
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58%
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Scream Park (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A failed amusement park owner devises a plan to commit gruesome murders in the park as a publicity stunt to sell tickets.
Style: slasher, scary, captivating, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: amusement park, serial killer, killer, murder, family business, party, masked killer, security, plot twist, twists and turns, haunted, gory ...
Time: 21st century
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53%
Violent New Breed (1997)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.
Style: independent film, splatter
Plot: child murder, mutilation, church, suicide attempt, tentacle, demon, pregnancy, child sacrifice, violence, murder, blood, gore ...
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51%
Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous cannibalistic zombies who feast on the living. A motley assortment of folks who include a bunch of bickering college kids, a trio of dangerous escaped convicts, an equally lethal pair of ...
Style: independent film
Plot: zombie, living dead, flesh eater, gory, guts, violence, blood, zombie violence, flesh eating zombie, gore, blood splatter
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48%
Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Actress Shirley Latanya Jones returns from the director's first film (Black Devil Doll from Hell) to be in front of Turner's camcorder, and reads two spooky tales to the ghost of her dead son, Bobby. The second story features a zombie ...
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: killer clown, clown, black, blaxploitation, amusement park, blood, corpse, ghost, evil clown, dead body, gore, throat slitting ...
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47%
Peepers (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: A serial killer murders people staying at a boarding house in this shot-on-video obscurity.
Style: detective
Plot: violence, blood, bare breasts, female nudity, beer, murder, masturbation, shooting, sex scene, poisoning, boarding house, serial killer ...
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45%
Beneath the Flesh (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Beneath the Flesh is an anthology of four nightmares. In Id, a man is tormented by love and a twisted creature in his apartment. In The Basement, two men confront each other in a damp, filthy basement. In The Child, a withered man nurtures a growing ...
Style: anthology
Plot: stop motion, pathology, recluse, surrealism, darkness, nightmare, exterminator, nihilism, creature, blood, loneliness, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dead by Christmas (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Reunited for the holidays, a group of friends raised together in a troubled Louisiana orphanage are stalked by a killer from Christmas Past.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic
Plot: christmas, blood, killer, revenge, death, holiday horror, nun, murder, violence, santa claus, killer santa claus, gore
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Doctor Bloodbath (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: It's the story of Dr. Thorn, an abortionist who uses post-procedure house calls as opportunities to murder his patients.
Style: slasher, slasher horror, independent film
Plot: serial killer, killer, murderer, doctor, violence, murder, blood, patient, abortionist, pregnant wife, bloodbath, abortion ...
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Dwellers (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
Style: detective, mysterious, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: found footage, creature, missing person, sewer, underground, mutant, bum, killing, disappearance, creature feature, homeless, loneliness ...
Place: ohio
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She Freak (1967)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, slasher, scary ...
Plot: carnival, freak, freakshow, waitress, exploitation, underground, amusement park, diner, snake charmer, fortune teller, mountain, infidelity ...
Time: 60s
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38%
They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Two Texas gardeners, who object to Northern attitudes and lifestyles, venture northward to cut lawns, trim hedges, and murder and mutilate Northern Yuppies.
Style: slasher, controversial, independent film, slasher horror
Plot: serial killer, killer, murder, gardener, guts, drunken girl, fake death, blood, violence, disembowelment, gore, blood splatter ...
Place: texas
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37%
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The Funhouse (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: carnival, murder, halloween, monster, brutality, clown, macabre, serial killer, runaway, violence, blood, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 5th century, year 1975, 15th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Blood (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: vampire, cannibal, man eating plant, blood, violence, death, woman kills a man, bat, supernatural, monster, supernatural power, crooked lawyer ...
Time: 1880s, 1930s
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36%
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Hood of the Living Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Death is only the beginning for the young victim of a drive-by shooting. Devastated at the loss of his younger brother Jermaine, scientific older sibling Ricky uses the situation as an opportunity to test an experimental serum designed to breathe ...
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: loss of brother, zombie, urban ghetto life, teenage life, supernatural, danger, ghetto, siblings relations, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, gang, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
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Demon Resurrection (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult in this low-budget shocker that pays homage to 70s horror and exploitation classics.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: monster, zombie, supernatural, demon, satanic cult, supernatural power, blood, violence, cthulhu, witchcraft, nudity, night of the living dead ...
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36%
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Dark Wolf (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hip, very erotic twist on the werewolf thriller, this atmospheric horror film adds a a wickedly sexy appetite to the bloodthirsty cravings of its monster. A vicious werewolf stalks the streets of Los Angeles. Between killings, its desperate goal ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, talky, suspense ...
Plot: werewolf, lovers on the run, female werewolf, investigation, supernatural, police detective, rivalry, danger, dangerous animal, rescue, stalking, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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36%
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Scare Zone (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it's just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he's put his heart and soul into it. The attraction is open for three nights only, and Oliver has brought back his old ...
Style: suspense, slasher, gothic
Plot: halloween, amusement park, halloween party, depression, haunted house, blood, bare breasts, chainsaw, cemetery, killer, pitchfork, goth girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Death Factory (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A woman working at a biological research facility becomes ill when she contracts a deadly, new virus. Sometime after, she becomes a half-monster beast and kills her old co-workers. Some time later, a group of teens go into the old research facility ...
Style: slasher, experimental, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: mutant, violence, strong violent content, danger, zombie, supernatural, experiment gone awry, gory, imaginary, survival, escapades, virus ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Asylum of Terror (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After a former mental asylum is converted into a haunted house attraction, a former inmate returns and starts murdering patrons.
Style: slasher
Plot: amusement park, mental institution, ghost, female nudity, masked killer, murder, bare breasts, chainsaw, baseball cap, topless, moustache
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Condo Hell (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story: A serial killer stalks guests during an open house weekend at a giant secluded luxury condominium estate.
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, bleak ...
Plot: killer, serial killer, hell, violence, fear, murder, brutality, psychopath, blood, paranoia, violent, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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