Movies like Headless Horseman

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Headless Horseman (2007)
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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 Street. The cause: local Wormwood legend says on All Hallows Eve one hundred years ago, a crazed man tortured the youngsters in town and then cut off their heads. In retaliation, the townspeople killed him by cutting off his head. Seeking revenge every seven years, he returns and takes seven heads from children in the town. Now the seven visitors find themselves hunted one by one as the Headless Horseman claims his due.
Style: gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: serial killer, ghost, supernatural, vengeance, danger, gory, legends and myths, woman in danger, murder, teenage girl, teenage boy, human sacrifice, halloween, paranormal, urban legend, rivalry, small town, violent content, teenager, escape, college, greek mythology, spirit, legend, evil spirit ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, ghost, murder, gory and rivalry mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Headless Horseman: Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002), Bloody Mary 3D (2011), Plasterhead (2006), Blood Descendants (2007), The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, gold, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, dead, revenge, local legend, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
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Bloody Mary 3D (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Bloody Mary tells the story of the spirit of the titular character (as portrayed by lovely actress Veronica Ricci), who after shuffling off the mortal coil in 1904 via execution due to her alleged adultery, returns to exact revenge on the bloodline ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, danger, legends and myths, urban legend, vengeance, lesbian sex, filmmaker, nude, lesbian, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Plasterhead (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, supernatural, danger, vengeance, survival, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, feral man, diner, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 ⇓
33%
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The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough
Plot: gory, supernatural, forest, decapitation, murder, psychopath, serial killer, danger, imaginary, city life, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, independent film
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, investigation, haunted by the past, supernatural, murder, violence spree, blaxploitation, black, graphic violence, american horror, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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Bloody Homecoming (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three years after a tragic accident leaves a student dead at the annual Homecoming dance, a group of senior friends anxious about the return of Homecoming Night to their sleepy Southern town find themselves visited by a deadly presence from their ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, homecoming, rivalry, high school, ghost, friends, teachers and students, stalking, teenager, survival, danger, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Jack-O (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long long time ago a wizard was put to death, but he swore vengeance on the townsfolk that did him in, particularly Arthur Kelly's family. Arthur had done the final graces on him when he came back to life as Mr. Jack the Pumpkin Man. The ...
Style: independent film, serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: halloween, zombie, scarecrow, american horror, supernatural horror, supernatural ability, ghost, rivalry, small town, reincarnation, curse, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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
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25%
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Hell Asylum (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A desperate producer faced with unemployment has the ultimate reality television program ready to roll.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, bleak, psychological
Plot: gory, haunted house, ghost, woman in danger, supernatural, danger, supernatural power, murder, death, escapades, rivalry, blonde ...
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25%
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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 ⇓
25%
Haunted Forest (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, slasher, tense ...
Plot: ghost, curse, vengeance, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals, missing person, danger, escapades, legends and myths, haunted by the past, evil spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blood Legend (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young witch gathers her coven to methodically fulfill her uncle's demands to help resurrect a demon lover from centuries past. Believing that she has completed her tasks she waits for the resurrection and her eternal rewards only to find ...
Style: serious, scary, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
Plot: supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, escapades, vengeance, school, hopes, imaginary, youth, rivalry, prank ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) ...
Style: slasher, serious, bleak, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, psychopath, legends and myths, gory, serial killer, vengeance, survival, danger, youth, teenage life, life is a bitch, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
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Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story: When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, small town, murder, demon, danger, escapades, rivalry, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, shopping mall, investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
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24%
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, mafia, survival, danger, rivalry, isolation, vengeance, imaginary, confined, curses spells and rituals, small town, curse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Spiker (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed ...
Style: slasher, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, small town, albino, danger, cheerleader, stalking, evil man, ghost, violence, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
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Death Bed (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
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Time: 21st century
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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, hotel, supernatural, danger, uncover truth, stalking, supernatural ability, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, master and servant, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Dead Mary (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During a fun-filled getaway at a remote lake, teenager Kim (Dominique Swain) and her friends unwittingly unleash a murderous spirit when they make the mistake of playing the game 'Dead Mary' in this horror story. The body count rises as ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family ...
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Genre: Horror
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, gothic, scary
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young television reporter (or "investigative journalist") is attacked in her home, leading to her boyfriend being murdered. Six months later she returns to work in a smaller town, and stumbles across a house full of ghosts trying to call ...
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Genre: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the Wild West, the mysterious Death Rider enters a dangerous Vampire Sanctuary where the price of admission is a one female virgin.
Style: captivating, scary, disturbing, gothic, suspenseful ...
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21%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: forest, suicide, uncover truth, curse, vengeance, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, gory, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
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21%
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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 ⇓
20%
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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 ...
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