Movies like Terror on Alcatraz

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Terror on Alcatraz (1987)
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Terror on Alcatraz (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: alcatraz, escaped prisoner, strangulation, hidden treasure, tied up, throat slitting, impalement, razor blade, meat cleaver, throat cut
Place: san francisco

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, independent film, scary and suspenseful films with plots about murder, serial killer, female nudity, throat slitting, psychopath, blood and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Terror on Alcatraz: Fatal Pulse (1988), The Majorettes (1986), Harvesters (2001), Possession (1987), Cardiac Arrest (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fatal Pulse (1988)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl is killed and raped minutes after fighting with her boyfriend (Jeff) and he left her. Jeff is the assistant of professor Caldwell at the university, and he wanted to return with his old girlfriend (Lisa). The girl lived with another five ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: woman strangled to death, sorority, vietnam war, teenager, nudity, serial killer, murder of a nude woman, illness, bare breasts, university, sex scene, sleazy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Majorettes (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A hooded psycho is murdering high-school girls. A devil-worshiping, drug-dealing biker gang is suspected.
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, serial killer, high school, murder, american football, female nudity, teenager, biker, psychopath, nurse, motorcycle ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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70%
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Harvesters (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Harvesters is an action-packed thriller about a small-time gang of misfits led by lesbian Gulf War veteran Frankie Falzone. After she thrashes a redneck at a strip club, she and her gang move on to a small town where they rob a liquor store and kill ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: female fight, fistfight, transvestite, violence, female nudity, nightclub, stabbed in the eye, woman shot in the forehead, shower, gore, tape over mouth, impalement
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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 ⇓
65%
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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 ⇓
65%
The Centerfold Girls (1974)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Police try to halt a psychotic killer's (Andrew Prine) rampage against women who posed nude in men's magazines.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, home invasion, murder, sexploitation, fashion model, psychopath, danger, law enforcement, mentally unstable, rapist, stewardess ...
Time: 70s
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61%
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5 Dark Souls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of popular teenagers trick three unsuspecting classmates into the woods to see what it's like to kill someone.
Style: independent film, slasher
Plot: nerd, high school student, popularity, high school, forest, teenage girl, revenge, teenage boy, true crime, teenager, group, woods
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Satanic Attraction (1989)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Fernanda, a radio DJ, has a show in which she tells gruesome and gory horror stories about satanic rituals and sex murders. However, when bodies start turning up around town killed in exactly the way Fernanda describes on her show, it looks like ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, slasher horror
Plot: sexual murder, serial killer, satanism, masked killer, sword, zombie, dismemberment, decapitation, violence, blood, disembowelment, guts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Bloodbath in Psycho Town (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The plot concerns two documentary film students who travel to a small, isolated town in the middle of nowhere to film a documentary about murders that occurred there. Soon they are stalked by someone who is afraid the students are getting to close ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, student film
Plot: stalker, filmmaker, male nudity, death, sex, murder, female nudity, haunted house, videotaping, body double, journey, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Wreckage (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, buddies, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, danger, car race, friends, ex soldier, irony, hillbilly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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51%
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Exit to Hell (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of stick-up kids rob a mafia run strip club and head for the border but when they enter the town of Redstone, they find that crime is a dish best served cold! Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade ...
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, cannibalism, serial killer, strip club, club, theft, stripper, cannibal, injustice, deadly, sickle, gun action
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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
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49%
Criminally Insane 2 (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the ...
Style: slasher, spooky, independent film
Plot: serial killer, female villain, exploitation, mental disorder, obesity, mental illness, psychiatric patient, murder, death, female killer, female psychopath, psycho ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Angel Negro (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Angel Negro (Black Angel) goes back to 1990, when a teenager called Angel Cruz disappears tragically. Ten years later, her classmates that were involved with this accident start to investigate the mysterious causes of the vanishing.
Style: slasher, suspense
Plot: masked killer, teenager, stalker, morgue, graduation, group of friends, medical examiner, mystery killer, falling to death
Time: year 1990
Place: chile
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47%
The Ghost Dance (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, psychotronic
Plot: native american, redsploitation, paranormal, serial killer, native, stalker, college, murder, maniac, shaman, museum, spirit ...
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47%
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Scar (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.
Style: slasher, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, small town, serial murder, violence spree, haunted by the past, homecoming, gory, who done it, woman in danger, murder, aunt niece relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
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47%
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Blood Voyage (1976)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror
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Mummy Maniac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on true events, tells how a serial murderer, kidnaps and tortures then bandaging girls like mummies.
Style: psychological, scary, slasher, rough, psychotronic ...
Plot: serial killer, mummy, deadly creature, psychopath, law enforcement, supernatural, police detective, murder, parents and children, psychiatrist, obsession, gory ...
Time: 21st century
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45%
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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 ...
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The Collected (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: The third film in The Collector series, following "The Collector" (2009) and "The Collection" (2012).
Style: slasher, sadistic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
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44%
Halloween Kills (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, killing spree, psycho, halloween, evil, gory, violence, holiday horror, maniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 2010s, year 1978, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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44%
The Inherited (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: When a college student who grew up a ward of the state finds out he inherited a large estate, he and his friends decide to assess for themselves his new wealth. Unfortunately, they quickly discover his long lost family was anything but normal. ...
Style: slasher
Plot: gay interest, college, blood, killer, death, inheritance, murder, haunted house, haunting
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43%
Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, police investigation, killer, brutality, violence, misfit, freak, exploitation, psychopath, psycho, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Deadly Lessons (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
Style: slasher
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42%
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Nightmare (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing, slasher ...
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42%
The Zero Boys (1986)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
Style: slasher, cult classic, spooky, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: survival, serial killer, exploitation, torture chamber, snake, tortured to death, group, group of friends, forest, killer, wilderness, human prey ...
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Masque of the Red Death (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But fate is not so easily escaped by the debauched nobility.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: edgar allan poe, macabre, apocalypse, plague, mansion, masked killer, mask
Time: year 1989
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Cry Havoc (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter (Emily Sweet) is given an exclusive interview with one of the FBI’s Most Wanted.
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, murder investigation, evidence, danger, graphic violence, who done it, uncover truth, forest, chase, investigation, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Delirium (1979)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, terrifying, slasher, independent film ...
Plot: sadism, death, murder, jealousy, vigilante, psycho, murderer, showdown, suicide, misogynist, boss, blood ...
Place: mississippi, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hayride 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The end of one journey only marks the beginning of another as Detective Loomis returns to uncover the truth behind the Legend of Pitchfork.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: strong violent content, psychopath, uncover truth, murder, violence spree, law enforcement, legend, death, danger, violence, chase, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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