Movies like How to Be a Serial Killer

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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)
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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp
Style: scary, humorous, suspenseful, rough, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy, dark comedy, funny, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, gory, police investigation, psychopath, hitman, misfit, stalking, frame up, danger, law enforcement, chaos and mayhem, killer, psychiatrist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, poison, home invasion, villain, guts, satire, found footage, killing, desert, store, murderous pair, prison ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: latin america, los angeles, mexico

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Most similar movies to How to Be a Serial Killer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, slasher and suspense films with plots about deadly, serial killer, danger, gory, murder, gore and psychopath mostly in Horror, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like How to Be a Serial Killer: Innocent Blood (1992), Nightstalker (2002), Touch of Death (1988), Monsturd (2003), The Great American Snuff Film (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Innocent Blood (1992)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A beautiful vampire turns a crime lord into a creature of the night.
Style: black comedy, scary, semi serious, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vampire, female vampire, femme fatale, supernatural, organized crime, sex scene, gangster, vampire human love, stalking, zombie, mafia, love affair ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Nightstalker (2002)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A stylish horror film based on the life of Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
Style: suspense, slasher, serious, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, true crime, police investigation, psychopath, murder, danger, mind game, law enforcement, murderous pair, violence, biopic ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Touch of Death (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lester Parson is a lonely gigolo who dates and kills off middle-aged women in ultra-gory fashion just for the pleasure of watching them die, as well as to take their money and jewelery as well as cook and eat their remains for his dinner.
Style: slasher, controversial, bloody, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, guts, psychopath, gambling, female nudity, dismemberment, hit and run, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.6
 1K
Monsturd (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
Style: semi serious, scary, suspenseful, humorous, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, monster, deadly creature, mad scientist, laboratory, gory, experiment gone awry, psychopath, mutant, supernatural, danger, toxic waste ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Great American Snuff Film (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two pretty young women are abducted to be the featured stars of a snuff film produced by a couple low-life goons. The ladies are bound, gagged, tortured, burned with cigarettes and forced to dig their own graves.
Style: disturbing, bleak, slasher, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, abduction, murder, gory, danger, found footage, woman in danger, voyeurism, law enforcement, police detective, psychopath ...
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44%
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Black Dahlia (2006)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Horror master Ulli Lommel is back with a terrifying tale of a copycat killer in Los Angeles. A young rookie cop and his team discover dismembered female bodies in L.A. similar to the Black Dahlia cold case from 1947. A serial killer seems to be ...
Style: scary, rough, slasher, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, bodily dismemberment, psychopath, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, cons and scams, gory, who done it, violence spree, danger, mind game ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.3
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The Voices (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, surreal, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: serial killer, mental illness, psychiatrist, psychopath, hearing voices, blood, schizophrenic, hallucination, danger, small town, murder, schizophrenia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Slaughterhouse (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, vengeance, gory, survival, violent, slaughterhouse, dark humor, mentally challenged, danger, buddies, serial killer, police investigation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Andre the Butcher (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Andre the Butcher will make sure you pay for your sins.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, gory, isolation, supernatural, mind game, violence spree, danger, destiny, murder ...
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Hide and Creep (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, humorous ...
Plot: supernatural, danger, gory, small town, zombie, fear, woman with a gun, nudity, violent content, store, small town life, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
Style: slasher, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Plot: halloween, serial killer, halloween party, psychopath, dark humor, danger, gory, guts, blood, occult, plot twist, ghost ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the interest of the local sheriff (Mark McLachlan), who holds Fuad's family reputation in ill favor. Fuad is soon, ...
Style: slasher, suspense, cult classic, bloody, queer horror ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, gory, serial killer, cannibal, exploitation, erotica, extreme, guts, killer, freak, cannibalism, violent ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Death by Engagement (2005)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two police detectives try to track down a vicious serial killer bent on reclaiming his mother's family heirloom wedding ring as it passes from bride to bride with the killer always one step behind, and the detectives one step behind the killer.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: wedding, psychopath, murder, police investigation, obsession, police detective, danger, vengeance, law enforcement, gory, curses spells and rituals, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Return to Horror High (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since ...
Style: spoof, slasher, cult classic, bloody, scary ...
Plot: high school, serial killer, police investigation, teenager, murder, gory, supernatural, filmmaking, violence, blood, masked killer, nudity ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Drive Thru (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of "Hella-Burger," starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell.
Style: horror comedy, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killer clown, evil clown, clown, serial killer, fast food restaurant, danger, psychopath, best friend, youth, mind game, social misfits, stalking ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier.
Style: slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, bullying, cricket, vengeance, rivalry, danger, on the run, psychopath, gory, stalking, characters killed one by one, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Tripper (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, hippie, psychopath, gory, murder, danger, violence spree, stalking, insanity, massacre, stoner, axe murder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Terror Toons (2002)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot: supernatural, chaos and mayhem, deadly creature, danger, gory, siblings relations, mad scientist, surgery, serial killer, villain, killer toy, when the parents are away ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Serial Killing 101 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, high school, psychopath, mind game, dark humor, police investigation, danger, youth, obsession, teenage life, stalking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Psychos in Love (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, humorous, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, serial killer, psychopath, dark humor, fall in love, psychotic, murderous pair, love affair, danger, investigation, two killers, murderer duo ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Cottage (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
Style: scary, slasher, horror comedy, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: countryside, kidnapping, dark humor, gangster, danger, murder, chase, nothing goes right, confined, monster, kidnapped, redneck ...
Time: year 2008
Place: europe, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Blades (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: HAPPY GILMORE meets MANIAC in this gore-filled swing at one of the most popular sports today, golf. A game of hooks slices...and slaughter!!! Meet Blades, the most terrifying character ever to tear up the screen...and Blades isn't even human. ...
Style: horror comedy, spoof, parody, independent film, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: golf, serial killer, boat, guts, supernatural horror, greed, jealousy, murder, gory, cons and scams, battles, psychopath ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
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The Janitor (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lionel is a custodian that longs for more. Bombarded with daily disrespect and insults from his co-workers, Lionel sets on a path of revenge and begins to brutally murder everyone in his path.
Style: scary, rough, humorous, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, rivalry, vengeance, gory, friendship, college life, fear, sex, female nudity, janitor, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 5.9
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Popcorn (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A horror film festival, held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire, turns into a real life horror show.
Style: slasher, horror comedy, scary, dark comedy, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, halloween, ghost, supernatural, maniac, killer, revenge, survival, occult, urban legend ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.9
 5K
Otis (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag ...
Style: realistic, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, prom, kidnapping, vengeance, danger, missing person, cheerleader, teenage life, child in peril, fbi, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Hillside Cannibals (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.
Style: scary, slasher, mockbuster, serious, rough ...
Plot: gory, danger, serial killer, redneck, murder, desert, cannibalism, profanity, strong violent content, nudity, escapades, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Legion of the Dead (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two guys, handsome William and his side kick Luke have just started their trip through the beautiful California desert when they're kidnapped by the notorious Psycho Mike, The Kern River Killer. Securing their escape through hilarious means and ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, perverse, dark ...
Plot: zombie, vampire, psychopath, murder, desert, supernatural, deadly creature, uncover truth, danger, supernatural ability, hitman, gory ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for ...
Style: scary, slasher, dark comedy, mockumentary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, small town, insanity, satire, found footage, journalism, dark humor, blood, maniac ...
Time: y2k, year 2006
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.7
 585
Shock Value (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Struggling 'B' movie Director blackmails a serial killer to be the star of his next film.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, unlikely partners, fish out of water, manipulation, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, serial killer, psychopath, strangled to death, nothing goes right, resort ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.2
 2K
Skinned Deep (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The horror film Skinned Deep begins when a family suffers a flat tire on a barren stretch of road with only a diner dotting the landscape. They meet Granny, the seemingly nice old woman who runs the establishment, but they soon find that she is the ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dark humor, serial killer, monster, deformity, murder, psychopath, mutant, woman in danger, abduction, gang, violence, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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