Movies like The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds

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The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
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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, or the inn's demented occupants turn him into another display in the grotesque Chapel of the Dead.
Style: slasher, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: swamp, taxidermy, hotel, mother daughter relationship, lightning, exploitation, agent, killer, crocodile, psycho, island, violence, murder, fire, boat, thunderstorm, corpse, punched in the face, mask, moonshine, rifle, held at gunpoint, rowboat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, psychotronic, independent film and suspense films with plots about murder, serial killer, violence, psychopath, killer, blood and female nudity mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds: Ruby (1977), Blood Lake (1987), Last Girl Standing (2015), Crucible of Terror (1971), The House Where Death Lives (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ruby (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
Style: slasher, independent film, serious, scary, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underground, evil child, exploitation, revenge, mother daughter incest, supernatural, ghost, gangster, murder, criminal heroes, danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: year 1951, 1950s, 1930s, 50s, year 1935
Place: florida
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95%
 3.1
 678
Blood Lake (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Six teenagers decide to party one weekend, but before the partying begins one couple disappears. Only to be fount brutally murdered. A blood thirsty killer is stalking their summer playground. One by one bodies begin to show up, as they become prey ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, slasher horror, teen horror
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, killer, exploitation, lake, couples, teenager, supernatural horror, murder, blood, death, violence, stalker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Last Girl Standing (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, troubled past, girl, brutality, woman in danger, violence, psychopath, danger, murder, revenge, maniac, disguise ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Crucible of Terror (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
Style: classic horror, grindhouse, gothic horror, slasher, independent film ...
Plot: artist, model, murder, serial killer, paranormal, folk horror, acid, lesbianism, exploitation
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The House Where Death Lives (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
Style: slasher, scary, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: old man, mansion, supernatural, murder, nurse, serial killer, exploitation, physical disability, handicapped, stalker, supernatural power, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 3.4
 237
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 ⇓
55%
Last of the Grads (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary ...
Style: slasher, scary, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, psychopath, revenge, masked killer, escapades, friends, paranoia, threat, obsession, violent, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Night to Dismember (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: exploitation, female psychopath, serial killer, mental disorder, curse, stalker, mental patient, decapitation, dismemberment, blood, female nudity, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Hayride (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: halloween, psychopath, serial killer, youth, danger, murder, death, teenage life, small town, mental patient, brutality, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Trapped by Fear (1985)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A mental patient detained in a psychiatric hospital escapes from confinement and is dedicated to roam the outskirts of Madrid. His mind is no more disturbed rationale to kill. After murdering two girls on the banks of a river, go stringing a series ...
Style: slasher
Plot: psycho, serial killer, stalker, house, killer, lesbianism, female nudity, friend, lesbian
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Blind (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a ...
Style: suspense, sad, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, blindness, darkness, house, woman in danger, psychopath, dishonesty, danger, homicidal maniac, couples, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
48%
Cinco De Mayo (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After being unjustly fired, harassed by his students and labeled a potential menace to society, El Maestro sets out to teach everyone one final lesson.
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: masked killer, revenge, violence, disguise, murder, brutality, danger, high school student, teenage life, maniac, teenager, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Hollywood 90028 (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man goes through life detached, alone, and unable to control his psychotic desire to kill the things he loves most. Employed as a cameraman in a seedy porno operation, he spends his days separated from the shame and degradation by the camera ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: exploitation, serial killer, porn industry, hollywood, strangulation, photographer, psycho killer, cameraman, murder, sex, photograph
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Coffin Baby (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An attractive young woman is kidnapped, held captive and forced to endure the evils of one of the most violent homicidal maniacs in the city's history. "The Toolbox Killer" aka TBK. It is by her will, strength and her faith that she ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, disturbing, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, murder, violence, psychopath, nightmare, supernatural power, police, female fighter, cannibalism, female fight, hotel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Mortuary (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes in was murder. Christie then see's an unknown figure dressed in a cape ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, horror comedy, bloody, independent film ...
Plot: zombie, cemetery, serial killer, teenager, mental disorder, woman with a gun, 666, undead, haunted, camp, haunted house, occult ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Harvest Of Fear (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Who's killing the college students during the annual Harvest Festival?
Style: slasher, suspense
Plot: college, fear, death, student, murder, female nudity, masked killer, killer, festival, sheriff, morgue, harvest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A darkly comic retelling of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, from Erik the Phantom's, twisted perspective.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, killer, deformity, revenge, killing spree, maniac, violent, weirdo, vengeance, murder, obsession, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 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 ⇓
42%
 4.5
 2K
Quarries (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: To escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling with the uncertainty of life. What was supposed to be an opportunity for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival, ...
Style: suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: chase, wilderness, murder, abusive boyfriend, hiking, woman in danger, survival, women, drug addict, violence, serial killer, feminist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 67
Cove Road (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: accident, night, vandalism, curfew, serial killer, murder, revenge, violence, killing spree, brutality, strong violent content, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Shallow Grave (1987)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Passing through a small Georgia town on their way to Florida, four young college girls witness the local sheriff murder a woman. They try to escape before he murders them, too.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, road movie, suspense, vintage
Plot: sheriff, adultery, strangulation, murder, cop, grave, psychopath, backwoods, prank, corrupt sheriff, damsel in distress, female nudity ...
Place: georgia, florida, southern usa, atlanta georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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My Pure Joy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On the outside Adam appears to be a normal teenager, but underneath...his mind has been so rotted by trauma from his past and the gory films he watches, that he has blurred the lines between reality and pretend! This prompts Adam to start killing ...
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: obsession, serial killer, murder, youth, mentally unstable, gory, terrorism, teenage life, female nudity, teenage murderer, psycho, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.7
 3K
The Stylist (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, body horror, hairdresser, murder, hunting, supernatural power, peril, paranormal phenomena, death, mission, supernatural ability, chase ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.0
 442
555 (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings ...
Style: slasher, detective, splatter, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: serial killer, murder, maniac, killer, violence, decapitation, colonel, blood, necrophilia, sergeant, hippie, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
God's Bloody Acre (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three mountain men live a simple life in a forest, until a construction crew shows up to make a park, and the men are prepared to defend their land and lifestyle by any means necessary.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: redneck, highway, murder, woman with a gun, hicksploitation, nightmare, feral man, freak, backwoods, mountain, exploitation, diner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
 3.4
 719
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 ⇓
36%
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