Movies like The Evil One

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The Evil One (2005)
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The Evil One (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Chicago's Englewood is a neighborhood where death is an everyday reality, but a serial killer on the loose has raised the terror quotient tenfold with the brutality of his crimes. When a newspaper photographer uncovers evidence linking the murders to the past, however, the intimations are almost unthinkable. Herman Webster Mudgett Jr., who was buried face down in the late 1800s after achieving the distinction of becoming America's first serial killer, seems to be back and out for revenge. The intrepid reporter has a personal stake in the mystery, as her mother was murdered by a descendant of Mudgett's; she sets out to discover if the urge to kill has been passed down in the blood, or if the culprit is truly from beyond the grave. This hip urban thriller strikes an effectively creepy mood, and features a talented cast that is almost entirely African American.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film
Plot: serial killer, investigation, vengeance, haunted by the past, supernatural, murder, violence spree, black, blaxploitation, graphic violence, american horror, profanity, urban, nudity, violent content, ghost, african american woman, nude, deadly, nudity (full frontal - brief), crimes, chicago illinois
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: chicago, usa, illinois

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Most similar movies to The Evil One

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about deadly, danger, murder, serial killer, supernatural, ghost and violent content mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Evil One: The Horror Show (1989), Blood Descendants (2007), 7 Below (2012), Scar (2005), The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Horror Show (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his ...
Style: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, female nudity, supernatural, execution, supernatural horror, monster, haunted house, paranormal, dead, electric chair, bare breasts, psychopath ...
Time: 80s
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100%
Blood Descendants (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, ghost, supernatural, danger, vengeance, murder, curses spells and rituals, obsessive quest, supernatural ability, deadly creature, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.1
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7 Below (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, psychological
Plot: haunted house, haunted by the past, ghost, isolation, supernatural, danger, murder, confined, time warp, trapped in a building, paranormal, group sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Scar (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While hiking in a remote forest, college student Zack disappears, leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom. Now a year later and plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny in a last ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, small town, missing person, investigation, gory, amateur detective, danger, buddies, forest, backwoods, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, college, psychopath, murder, gory, uncover truth, youth, ghost, teenage life, supernatural, mind game, rivalry ...
Place: texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Fear Chamber (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, danger, law enforcement, supernatural, violence, showdown, killer, violent content, supernatural ability, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.1
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Knock Knock (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, small town, vengeance, who done it, danger, investigation, mortician, rivalry, ghost, high school, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Headless Horseman (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood – a "lost" town in the middle of nowhere. They find something strange and sinister happening there – bones and weird decorations line Main ...
Style: gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: serial killer, ghost, supernatural, vengeance, danger, legends and myths, woman in danger, gory, murder, teenage boy, teenage girl, human sacrifice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Maneater (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, small town, law enforcement, monster, danger, violence, creature feature, killer animal, creature, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.1
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Reality Check (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four young women and three young men, totally strangers to each other, are sent to an isolated house with the crew members of a reality show to stay living together for three months without any means of communication with the exterior, and in the ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, slasher, scary
Plot: serial killer, murder, contests and competitions, prize money, isolation, profanity, media satire, farm, party, female nudity, woods, violent content ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.4
 1K
Mothman (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of friends band together to hide the truth about a mutual friend's tragic death. They soon discover that an evil entity is in pursuit of them.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, danger, murder, creature feature, hidden truth, group of friends, violence, urban legend, creature, psychic, psychic power, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 1.8
 245
Severed (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, supernatural, rivalry, who done it, police detective, master criminal, police investigation, private detective, bounty hunter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Dead Want Women (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Beginning at a stylish mansion in the roaring 1920's, a socialite, flappers, and the men who love them come to their ultimate demise. These ghosts continue to haunt the mansion throughout the decade. Now they've come back to haunt and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, independent film
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, zombie, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, violence spree, murder, mansion, hallucination, mythical creature, best friend ...
Time: 1920s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.1
 173
The Forest (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, profanity, woods, urban legend, rivalry, murder, violence, living dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Before Someone Gets Hurt (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tim and his team are the rising stars of the ghost hunting game. One thing they all like better than a good haunt is a great prank. When the team arrives at a new investigation, they cannot figure if the occurrences are part of some elaborate master ...
Style: suspenseful, brutal, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, haunted house, ghost, paranormal activity, danger, brutality, insanity, transformation, death, murder, witch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending
Plot: haunted house, ghost, investigation, haunted by the past, afterlife, supernatural, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, psychic, poltergeist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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April Fools (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A year ago, DeAnna a young hottie, seduces Melvin the class nerd, only to set him up for a cruel April Fools' joke that inadvertently ended in murde. Now, DeAnna, her boyfriend and her friends are being stalked by a hooded figure. Is Melvin ...
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mysterious character, youth, danger, stalking, rivalry, vengeance, friends, hip hop, prank, bullying, graphic violence, holiday horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.5
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Evil Eyes (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about starts to actually happen.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: serial killer, screenwriter, premonition, psychopath, gory, profanity, supernatural being, pregnancy, violent content, forces of nature, sexual content, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Long Distance (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, profiler, murder, psychopath, danger, stalking, phone terror, violent content, sexual content, profanity, killer, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.7
 808
Basement Jack (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, mental institution, murder, gory, female fighter, manhunt, violence, thunderstorm, lightning, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.0
 310
Snapped (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Amy Mechanic, an ambitious young photographer, lands the opportunity she has been waiting for. The assignment: to create a dark collection of works based around the theme of death...
Style: slasher, disturbing, serious, rough, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, law enforcement, danger, murder, amateur detective, mental illness, psychopath, voyeurism, stalking, female killer, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Curse of El Charro (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: n California, Maria has awful nightmares with and visions of her sister that committed suicide one year ago. Her roommate Chris invites Maria to travel with her and her friends Tanya and Rose on vacation to her uncle's house in Saguaro, ...
Style: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, nightmare, danger, supernatural ability, supernatural, clergy, haunted by the past, revenge, youth, college, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Pale Blood (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A vampire pretender who is murdering women runs into a real vampire who is out to stop him because he is casting too much of a spotlight on the vampire community.
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot: vampire, serial killer, switching roles, monster, profanity, loss of virginity, nudity, violent content, rivalry, law enforcement, supernatural, stalking ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Mimesis (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
Style: scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: murder, zombie, danger, psychopath, gory, confined, isolation, living dead, undead, violent content, profanity, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Slaader is a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family. Edward Eischel, a young intern, sees something more than just an inbred monster in this new inmate, however. Instead, he sees him ...
Style: lovecraft, serious, suspenseful, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot: mental disorder, doctor, supernatural, obsession, murder, mental institution, ancient mystery, danger, nudity, blood, ghost, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.3
 1K
Grotesque (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: murder, mutant, vengeance, danger, gang, chase, investigation, violence, maniac, feral man, american horror, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.4
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The Pact II (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, ghost, supernatural, haunted by the past, woman in danger, danger, violence, woman, haunted, haunted house, home invasion, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Blood Stained Shoes (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This film is set in the 1930s, and starts with a strange murder in a beautiful Jiangnan river delta. At the scene, all that is left is an exquisite pair of embroidered shoes. An innocent seamstress is suspected and put to death, but the bloody ...
Style: tense, scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot: murder, false accusation, vengeance, social relations, supernatural, life is a bitch, village, strong female presence, sexual dysfunction, village life, ghost, supernatural serial murderer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.9
 471
Inside (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: prison, supernatural, confined, danger, haunted by the past, deadly creature, violence, exorcism, demon, jail cell, prisoner, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Igor and the Lunatics (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.
Style: serious, scary, rough, slasher, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, violence spree, psychopath, social misfits, criminal's revenge, danger, small town, rivalry, murder, sect, exploitation, zombie ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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