Movies like The Red Cell

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The Red Cell (2008)
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The Red Cell (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A terminally ill patient, wakes up in a dark, decrepit underground chamber. An IV pumps an unknown liquid into his body and adorning his head is a crown of wires. His last memories lead him back to the hospital where doctors had recently discovered his illness. He didn't even have enough time to inform those closest to him of his untimely death sentence before ending up here. Behind the walls someone is lurking, and Ayden soon finds out that a psychotic killer, bent on performing strange, immoral medical experiments, is holding him captive. But there's more to this man than meets the eye, as Ayden will learn in time. What starts out as a sadistic medical experiment quickly becomes an excruciating race for Ayden to survive both his captor and his illness long enough to simply tell his shrouded family goodbye.
Style: suspense, art house, underground film, sinister, independent film, minimal cast, creepy, psychotronic, awful
Plot: blood, cancer, bondage, psychopath, illness, insanity, terminal illness, evil man, murder, evil, fear, sadism, hallucination, drug use, nightmare, surrealism, anguish, absurdism, body horror, survival, macabre, psycho, hell, experiment, gory ...

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Most similar movies to The Red Cell

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, psychotronic and slasher films with plots about murder, sadism, violence, psychopath, insanity, death and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Red Cell: Snuff 102 (2007), Carl (2012), The Summer of Massacre (2012), BnB HELL (2017), The Collector (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Snuff 102 (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young Argentinian reporter is writing an article about snuff films - which depict real torture, rape and murder of people. But seeking the films and those behind them might backfire. She herself is in danger of becoming one of the suffering.
Style: disturbing, brutal, bloody, extreme horror, tense ...
Plot: torture, murder, violence, physical torture, held captive, brutality, violence against women, sexual cruelty, extreme, mockery, sexual torture, rape ...
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Carl (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, gory, woman in danger, rivalry, confined, small town, good versus evil, survival, strong violent content, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Summer of Massacre (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ungodly brutal beatings turns Chris, a young man, into a fiend that sets off a bloody, like never before seen, rampage. Beauty is truly only skin deep - Watch a young paraplegic, whose body is also wrecked with spinal bifida, fight for her life as ...
Style: slasher, underground film, psychotronic, art house, anthology ...
Plot: massacre, serial killer, brutality, violence, death, cruelty, killing spree, graphic violence, crazy, extreme violence, revenge, murder ...
Place: usa
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BnB HELL (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young woman's hunt for her missing sister ends at a rundown bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills run by an ill-tempered woman called Mommy. Disturbing messages left by former guests suggest unsettling secrets lay buried there.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, brutal, tense ...
Plot: hallucination, nightmare, trapped, abuse, trap, captivity, brutality, survival, vigilante, sadistic horror, extreme violence, sadist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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The Watermen (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, rough, scary, bleak
Plot: human monster, sadist, violence, murder, survival, sadism, mercilessness, bloodbath, crazy, perversion, blood, torture ...
Place: usa
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Darling (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.
Style: black and white, mumblecore, suspense, art house, slasher ...
Plot: insanity, murder, nightmare, female protagonist, hallucination, paranoia, alone, schizophrenia, occult, ritual, dementia, mistaken identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Children of Sorrow (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Simon Leach is a very, very sick man. Thriving on despair, pain, and panic, he unites a group of broken and desperate people in the middle of the desert. He showers them with the love and affection they’re so desperate for, but Simon has a much ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, dark, tense ...
Plot: found footage, desert, danger, violence, murder, isolation, missing person, brainwashing, male nudity, religions or cults, death, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, danger, chase, wedding, psychopath, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: new york
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, desert, gory, blood, cannibal, rape, serial killer, dog, murder, violence, disturbed individual, rape and revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california
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Do Not Reply (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Chelsea, a high school introvert, is abducted through a social media app and is forced to look like other girls Brad holds captive. Chelsea desperately attempts to persuade them to escape before they all become victims in his virtual reality filmed ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot: disturbed individual, kidnapping, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, virtual reality, abduction, mental illness, halloween, sadist, violence, teenage girl, disturbed person, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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TORMENT (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Freely inspired to the GACY's torture insane world, this film promise to tell what in other movies no one had the courage to push the limits!
Style: disturbing, suspense, underground film, depressing, psychotronic ...
Plot: graphic violence, killer clown, gay, serial killer, psychopath, murder, insane, torment, male objectification, sadist, suffering, hallucination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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Maniac (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style: disturbing, slasher, scary, sadistic, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, obsession, insanity, mental illness, maniac, murder, sadism, loneliness, mannequin, torture, violence spree, brutality ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Antidote (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman is held captive in an underground medical facility where selected individuals are perpetually mutilated and then healed using an experimental miracle drug: a panacea.
Style: experimental, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: sadistic horror, trapped, captivity, torture, violence, murder, deathtrap, characters in danger, fear, chase, abuse, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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American Hunt (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of friends is torn apart when they become part of two human hunter's sick game. The men give them ten minutes to hide, and then the real hunt begins.
Style: slasher, bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense ...
Plot: survival horror, murder, survival, psychopath, maniac, abuse, fear, playing god, chase, brutality, insanity, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Beneath Us (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Everyday, thousands of immigrants line the parking lots of hardware stores and climb into cars with strangers they've never met, all for the promise of paid work. In Beneath Us, a group of undocumented workers are lured into the home of Liz ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: worker, survival, survival horror, game of death, hostage, killer, betrayal, nightmare, torture, murder, terror, sadist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Horror Vault Vol.1 (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Nine short tales of horror filmed by various directors are presented together in one chilling volume, featuring enough killers, psychopaths and supernatural demons to satisfy the most demanding fans of human perversity and madness. Featured titles ...
Style: disturbing, anthology, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, gory, obsession, split personality, fear, nudity, violent content, twists and turns, dungeon, mass murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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32%
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Anonymous Killers (2020)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their maniacal, mysterious captor.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murderer, survival horror, game of death, survival, vigilante, killings, serial killer, trapped, student, violent, murder, sadist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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32%
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Dread (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: fear, torture, violence, cruelty, held captive, college student, psychopath, mind game, childhood trauma, social relations, human nature, nightmare ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie' bakery who abducts a number of customers from the barber shop and ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, psychological thriller, splatter ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, serial killer, murder, dismemberment, barber, bakery, kidnapping, exploitation, torture, violence, police ...
Time: 70s, victorian era
Place: london
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The Forest (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.
Style: suspense, slasher, sadistic, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, murder, woods, psychopath, redneck, terror, violence, serial killer, survival, sadism, stalking ...
Place: california, los angeles
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The Last Showing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, obsession, vengeance, murder, maniac, insanity, violence, serial murder, serial killer, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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31%
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Terrifier (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A maniacal clown named Art, terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killer clown, clown, maniac, halloween, evil clown, homicidal maniac, serial killer, psycho killer, sadism, macabre, brutality, murder ...
Time: year 2017
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Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, bloody, rough, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, vengeance, rape and revenge, rape, brutality, sex, sexual abuse, macabre, psychopath, cruelty, sadism, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, england, europe, germany, new york state ...
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Save Yourself (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five female filmmakers en route to screen their new horror film in Los Angeles, experience their own real life terror when they cross paths with deranged scientist hellbent on using them for his twisted experiments.
Style: slasher, suspense, bleak, scary, psychotronic
Plot: survival horror, mad scientist, revenge, playing god, characters in danger, killings, female protagonist, deathtrap, escape attempt, mastermind, strong female presence, torture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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30%
 6.7
 4K
Anguish (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Style: slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, mind twisting, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, two killers, hypnosis, terror, surrealism, eye, blood, psycho killer, spirituality, survival, teenager, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, america, europe ...
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Chaos (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Emily and her friend Angelica go to a rave in the woods, and when they arrive, they meet a stranger called Swan that promises some Exstasy for the girls. They follow him to a cabin into the forest where they meet the sadistic gang leaded by the ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, serious ...
Plot: rape, sexual sadism, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, sadism, exploitation, psychopath, violence, rape victim, woods, murder, gory ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california
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Never Hike Alone (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A hiker's survival skills is put to the test when he stumbles upon the remains of an old abandoned camp and discovers its long dark secrets.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, spooky ...
Plot: homicidal maniac, serial killer, psychopath, masked man, murder, danger, running, survival horror, murderer, summer camp, violence, fight ...
Place: new jersey
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