Movies like Scalpel

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Scalpel (1977)
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Scalpel (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
Style: slasher, southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: plastic surgery, surgery, exploitation, surgical operation, american horror, plastic surgeon, accident victim, pianist, funeral, woman, drowning, dual role, jazz band, midnight
Place: louisiana
Keyword: operation

Most similar movies to Scalpel

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, independent film, psychotronic and suspenseful films with plots about murder, serial killer, exploitation, psychopath, female nudity, revenge and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Scalpel: Possession (1987), Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972), Las Vegas Serial Killer (1986), Scum of the Earth (1974), Cardiac Arrest (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Possession (1987)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Frankie is a psychopath who drags along problems with his mother. To compensate these problems he follows and persecutes Madeleine and some of her friends killing one girl after the other and also everybody who would stand in his way - without any ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: murder, psychopath, murder of a nude woman, exploitation, blood, forest, female nudity, matricide, pistol, strangulation, drowning, domineering mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, sadistic, splatter ...
Plot: exploitation, serial killer, mother, mental disorder, wealth, killing, nudity, psychiatric hospital, disturbed person, insane, rage, traumatic childhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Las Vegas Serial Killer (1986)
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: August 31, 1986: Dangerously unhinged serial killer Johnathan Glick gets released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. Three days after his release Johnathan arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Naturally, Johnathan decides to embark on ...
Style: slasher, independent film, psychotronic, weird
Plot: serial killer, strangulation, airplane, murder, dancing, swimming pool, exploitation, strangler, rodeo, mirror, model, twerking ...
Time: year 1986
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Scum of the Earth (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for some cigarettes he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an axe blade makes the point moot. Panic stricken, Helen runs ...
Style: grindhouse, psychological thriller, independent film, slasher, sadistic ...
Plot: exploitation, wedding, vacation, woods, psycho killer, slaughtered, newlyweds, crazy, slaughterhouse, forest, insane, white trash ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 265
Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a ...
Style: slasher, detective, independent film
Plot: killer, hospital, murder, investigation, serial killer, surgery, heart, heart transplant, body part
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Point of Terror (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.
Style: grindhouse, slasher, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: exploitation, murder, adultery, striptease, man in a wheelchair, woman fights a man, horse, nightmare, port, nightclub, redhead, swimming pool ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
A Face to Die For (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
Style: rom com, slasher
Audience: chick flick
Plot: disfigured face, disfigured, surgery, fashion designer, prison, revenge, plastic surgery, female vigilante, face, facial scar
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
No Place to Hide (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who ...
Style: slasher
Plot: woman in danger, woman in peril, cabin in the woods, heiress, stalker, sexploitation, insanity, art student, lake, stepmother, dead father, psychiatrist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 4.9
 649
Impulse (1974)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, independent film
Plot: exploitation, maniac, serial killer, murderer, woman strangled to death, con game, psychopath, child abuse, physical abuse, prison, on the run, revenge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Bloody Slaying of Sarah Ridelander (1973)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: biker, serial killer, exploitation, terror, motorcycle, murder, motorcycle gang, blackmail, killer, murder of wife, death of wife, businessman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.2
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Soft & Quiet (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.
Style: atmospheric, detective, dread, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: confronting the past, problem, slice of life, school teacher, female teacher, tragic past, troubled past, rape, home invasion, racial violence, racial slur, sexual abuse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 41K
Watcher (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, scary, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, stalker, women, voyeurism, woman, murder, home invasion, expatriate, paranoia, being followed, missing woman, great ending ...
Time: 2020s
Place: romania, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A photographer cruises Hollywood and takes pictures of young models he then strangles. Meanwhile, a woman who works in a porno bookstore in downtown L.A. takes it upon herself to kill off the local derelicts. Soon the two killers meet up with each ...
Style: slasher, bloody, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: serial killer, fashion model, exploitation, woman kills a man, hollywood, two killers, nude model, call girl, mass murder, photographer, death, murder ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: psycho killer, homicidal maniac, revenge, sadistic psychopath, manhunt, kidnapping, murder, psychopath, sex maniac, chase, cruelty, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Johnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, comes across the remote Cuckoo Bird Inn after escaping from a band of cut-throat moonshiners and a mysterious killer. He realizes there that he must discover the identity of the killer before it, ...
Style: slasher, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: swamp, taxidermy, lightning, exploitation, mother daughter relationship, hotel, agent, corpse, punched in the face, fire, murder, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Dark Sanity (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.
Style: slasher, bloody, independent film
Plot: exploitation, pig killer, fired from the job, alcoholic, unsolved mystery, infidelity, axe murderer, gardener, black cat, insurance agent, psychic, insane asylum ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
American Backwoods: Slew Hampshire (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In June of 1994, one of the most brutal mass slaughters in history occurred in the backwoods of northern New England. Four months later, history is about to repeat itself. The end of summer signals the brink of manhood for a group of lifelong ...
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: hunting, hillbilly, death, road trip, sadism, murder, captive, existentialism, killer, cannibalism, survival, group of friends ...
Place: new england, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, contemplative, disturbing, historical drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, actress, pregnant woman, mass murder, fame, actor, celebrity, husband wife relationship, satanic cult, hollywood, charles manson ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 4.1
 448
Play Dead (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, brutal, independent film
Plot: dog, animal attack, killer dog, paranormal, revenge, killing spree, family relations, woman, murder, strangulation, female nudity, psychopath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Death Valley (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, offbeat, bloody, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, death valley, murder, teenage life, maniac, trailer home, survival, teenager, murderer, truck, trucker, american horror ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: arizona, usa, california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Repentance (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller ...
Plot: psychopath, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, maniac, murder, terror, villain, black, psychology, mental illness, mental health ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Lucid (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
Style: suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, serial killer, homicidal maniac, woman in danger, gossip and rumors, masked killer, sadistic psychopath, vengeance, disguise, characters in danger, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.4
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Bleed (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A naïve young girl desperate to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that membership may be deadly. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn, desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie learns that the friends have ...
Style: slasher, independent film, surprise ending, splatter
Plot: serial killer, male nudity, skinny dipping, stalker, swimming pool, female nudity, psychopath, flashback, strangulation, bare breasts, murder, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Movie in collections
 5.3
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Effects (1979)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, voyeurism, terror, director, murder, inspiration, drug use, cocaine, bar fight, psychopath, supernatural ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.9
 1K
Sledgehammer (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: exploitation, teenager, supernatural, haunted house, pandemic, characters killed one by one, ghost, serial killer, killer child, matricide, bare breasts, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
An Eye for an Eye (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
Style: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, psychotronic
Plot: child abuse, mental disorder, eye, exploitation, serial killer as protagonist, revenge, arrested development, psychopath, psycho killer, vigilantism, villain played by lead actor, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Night Of Bloody Horror (1969)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, slasher, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, funeral, beach, child murders a child, blackout, axe murder, mutilation, headache, child murder, murder, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.9
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The Black Room (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending ...
Style: slasher, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Plot: murder, exploitation, paranormal, voyeurism, estate, psychopath, gory, siblings relations, filmmaking, hollywood, showbiz, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 2.7
 212
Blood Prism (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, guts, fear, chase, murder, blood, obsession, death, violence, revenge, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story: A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
Style: independent film, psychotronic, slasher
Plot: vampire, exploitation, supernatural, witchcraft, wedding, funeral, female vampire, revenge, ritual, occult, undead, brother ...
Time: year 2016, year 1974
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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