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Nailbiter (2013)
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.
Style:
scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, captivating, psychological, spooky
Plot:
family in danger, family relations, deadly creature, forced into action, creature feature, violence, death, monster, serial killer, basement, creature, terror, profanity, danger, violent content, storm, survival, confined, parents and children, graphic violence, deadly, gore
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Nailbiter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and tense films with plots about danger, deadly, violence, murder, serial killer, survival and supernatural mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Nailbiter: The Hospital (2013), Deep in the Darkness (2014), Serum (2006), It Waits (2005), Inside (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Old St. Leopold's Hospital has many urban legends surrounding it, but the residents of Bridgeport all agree on one thing: tortured souls roam its abandoned halls. The mystery proves too much for a pretty young student who decides to investigate ...
Style:
medical horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
hospital, psychopath, ghost, violence, serial killer, danger, psychiatric ward, medical, city life, urban, female nudity, bare chested male ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, scary, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
creature, small town, danger, deadly creature, family relations, survival, showdown, woods, resistance, rivalry, violence, folk horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
445
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While searching for a "cure all" serum, Dr. Edward Kanopolus, "Dr. K", is being pressured for results by the pharmaceutical company funding the project. With time running out, tragedy and desperation drive him to make decisions ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
mutant, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, chaos, danger, laboratory, supernatural, doctors and patients, violence, disorder, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
creature, wilderness, survival, murder, gory, danger, deadly creature, stalking, forest ranger, forest, travel, mythical creature ...
Similarity:
100%
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483
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, deadly creature, danger, haunted by the past, supernatural, confined, violence, exorcism, demon, prisoner, jail cell, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during ...
Style:
suspense, underground horror, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
backwoods, diner, danger, deadly creature, hitchhiker, twists and turns, confined, supernatural, underground, monster, murder, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ex-Navy seal (Mehcad Brooks), his girlfriend (Serinda Swan) and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper (Sid Haig), who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
creature, swamp, deadly creature, creature feature, ritual, snake, lesbian sex, outdoor sex, survival, danger, supernatural, gory ...
Time:
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Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the ...
Style:
slasher, realistic, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, danger, gory, couples, survival, curses spells and rituals, murder, dead woman, death, blood, erotica, serial killer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
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544
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:
investigation, serial killer, murder, small town, law enforcement, monster, danger, violence, creature feature, killer animal, creature, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
169
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family rents their home to unsuspecting tourists to satiate the monster that lives in its very walls.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, survival horror, family in danger, peril, danger, killing, violence, vengeance, supernatural power, rescue, chase, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
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, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, danger, group of friends, murder, creature feature, hidden truth, violence, urban legend, psychic, creature, psychic power, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, west virginia
Similarity:
33%
191
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, murder, estrangement, supernatural, mentally unstable, bigfoot, creature, demon, showdown, rivalry, violence, human host ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a property in the Sonoran Desert, AZ, fell into default foreclosure and went up for public auction, an eager young newlywed couple jumped at the opportunity to purchase. Little did they know it used to be a torture ground owned by the serial ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, desert, terrorism, struggle for survival, murder, violence, relocation, pursuit, body horror, wedding, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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, danger, psychopath, supernatural, law enforcement, showdown, violence, killer, supernatural ability, violent content, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, slasher, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Purge: To put to death, eliminate what is undesirable. The serial killer known as Purge lived and died by this code. But is he dead? Driving home from a road trip, ERIC and SHELLY take a back road to avoid a traffic jam. They encounter the serial ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, slasher, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, danger, friends, youth, revenge, survival, psychopath, violence, rivalry, teenage life, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, danger, confined, escapades, supernatural, catacomb, crypt, deadly creature, struggle for survival, murder, treasure hunt, violence ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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236
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
From the producers of SAW, VLOG is a groundbreaking extreme-horror film about a real-life webcam girl whose online murder is not what it seems.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, danger, stalking, found footage, murder mystery, technology, internet, witch, machine, computers and web, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, mentally unstable, mental institution, struggle for survival, danger, murder, violence, survival, violence spree, gory, woman in danger, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
606
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
danger, isolation, wilderness, confined, found footage, violence, murder, island, redneck, airplane crash, witch, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man takes his family on a camping trip and becomes convinced they are being stalked by the legendary monster of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: the Jersey Devil.
Style:
suspense, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
devil, deadly creature, mentally unstable, creature, woods, monster, husband wife relationship, redneck, camping, family in danger, rescue, creature feature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of out-of-work actors decide to take their careers into their own hands by shooting a low-budget horror film, about an urban myth. With only 15 days to shoot their unfinished script, at a remote castle in the desert, getting through the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, isolation, ego clash, rivalry, confined, strong violent content, survival, danger, murder, serial killer, killer, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Blood runs rampant on Halloween night when a small towns' Fright Fest becomes real inside the walls of a long abandoned asylum.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, blood, criminally insane, danger, murder, psychopath, survival, massacre, brutality, gory, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
665
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Stitch follows the story of grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their best friends for healing advice, who lead them into the deep desert for a weekend ritual meant to ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, family in danger, danger, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, grief, death, violence, mourning, supernatural, ritual, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, danger, confined, captivity, death, violence, hardcore, supernatural, isolation, gory, wilderness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The next night the same actors become locked into the theater, each one of them has to face ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
college, vengeance, rivalry, murder, actor, college student, theater, rite of passage, held captive, danger, backfire, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a group of friends and colleagues tracks reclusive writer Samantha Ballard (Aleece Jones) to her remote desert house, their reluctant hostess informs them that they'll die if they try to escape. After her ex-husband disastrously tests ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
curse, paranormal activity, fear, isolation, death, danger, survival, pursuit, violence, house, supernatural, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
They say squatting is dead - a term that takes on a sinister double meaning when four homeless art students decide to take up residence in an abandoned London House where a hidden terror lurks.
Style:
slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
isolation, survival, murder, new house, couples, danger, abandoned house, violence, serial killer, hoodie, terror, house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, london, europe
Similarity:
27%
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