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Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001)
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Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.
Style: serious, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, scary, tense
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, hidden identity, river, monster, water, urban, city life, obsessive quest, cabin in the woods, villain played by lead actor, casting couch, villain as protagonist, deadly, lake or river, crimes
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, slasher and scary films with plots about serial killer, danger, deadly, psychopath, murder, gory and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Return to Cabin by the Lake: The Cellar Door (2007), Fall Down Dead (2007), Bone Daddy (1998), Long Distance (2005), Sam's Lake (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cellar Door (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
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Cabin by the Lake (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, held captive, kidnapping, danger, psychopath, kidnapped, writer's life, woman in danger, river, hostage, abduction, missing person ...
Time: 90s
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Fall Down Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie ...
Style: suspenseful, christmas horror, bleak, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, danger, psychopath, stalking, suburbs, christmas, murder witness, xmas, isolation, murder, trapped, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Bone Daddy (1998)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, pathologist, writer's life, danger, law enforcement, gory, parents and children, corpse, medicine, medical examiner, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago
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100%
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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
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Sam's Lake (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by a murder-mystery-turned-legend surrounding a massacre near "Sam's Lake," the film follows Sam, a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage she grew up in, to reconnect with her traditions ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mysterious character, psychopath, urban legend, danger, wilderness, woods, best friend, redneck, serial killer, youth, violent content, profanity ...
Place: usa
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Survival Knife (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lone survivor of a serial killer's attack tries to cope with the death of her friends and her mutilation at the hands of the maniac - but she fears the trauma has awakened a dark side within her as she slowly becomes something possibly even ...
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, revenge, split personality, murder, female killer, haunted by the past, danger, woman with a gun, bad girl, psycho killer, psychopath, serial murder ...
Place: pittsburgh
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Ring Around the Rosie (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, brutal ...
Plot: woman in danger, nightmare, sibling relationship, sister sister relationship, ghost, exploitation, secrets, grandparent grandchild relationship, high society, psychopath, serial killer, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, danger, law enforcement, murder, family life, teenage life, journalism, home invasion, media ...
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24%
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Nite Tales: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Actors: Flavor Flav, Dante Basco, Chico Benymon, Andrea Bogart, James Ferris
Style: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, anthology, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, heist, murder, psychopath, legends and myths, college, storm, danger, violence, blaxploitation, criminal heroes, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
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23%
 2.3
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The Hospital (2013)
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: scary, suspenseful, serious, medical horror, tense ...
Plot: hospital, ghost, psychopath, college, violence, serial killer, danger, medical, urban, city life, female nudity, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
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The Choke (2006)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
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Plot: rock, survival, teenage life, gory, rave, danger, stalking, murder, rock and roll, serial killer, hard rock, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
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23%
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Death Row (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot: prison, psychopath, prison life, survival, serial killer, confined, danger, life is a bitch, murder, execution, death row, all male cast ...
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
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Animus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by ...
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Killer Holiday (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Taylor, a former juvenile delinquent, convinces straight-'A' student, Cammi to join her and her friends on a Spring Break road trip through the California desert. Ignoring evil premonitions from Cammi, the 8 friends party heavily as they ...
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XII (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Lost Angel (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, serious, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wreckage (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Trail of Blood (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, a young U.S. Marine enlistee named Jim and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. They're suddenly taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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The Woods Have Eyes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of young campers wander into the backwoods of upstate New York to see if Cappy's Cabin--a place they think exists only in urban legend--is real, they find themselves in a twisted game of predator and prey as night begins to fall. ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, psychopath, danger, survival, isolation, forest, revenge, camping, decapitation, lost in the woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, college, investigation, mind game, amateur detective, danger, survival, journalism, stalking, youth, rivalry, psychopath ...
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts
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Cruel World (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Millions witnessed Philip Markham's public humiliation when he got dumped by Catherine, the beautiful star of a popular dating show, and now - several years and reality series later - he wants revenge. After taking Catherine captive, he lures ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, gory, vengeance, rivalry, confined, danger, media, hostage, multiple murder, fictional reality show, television, serial killer ...
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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 ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, mental institution, murder, gory, female fighter, manhunt, violence, thunderstorm, lightning, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Desecrated (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A rich heiress and her friends head for a weekend of fun at her isolated ranch house in the middle of no man's land. They soon find that the caretaker's dark past, has taken him down a bloody killing spree.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, isolation, buddies, mysterious character, ranch, struggle for survival, danger, violence, heiress, youth, woods, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011)
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, slasher, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, friends, youth, revenge, psychopath, survival, violence, rivalry, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Bates Haunting (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: One year ago, Agnes Rickover attended opening night at the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride to see her best friend Lily's dramatic debut. A horrific accident resulted in Agnes witnessing Lily's fiery death in a spectacle gone wrong. After a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: hotel, murder, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, haunted house, serial killer, danger, violence, haunting, haunted, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Shiver (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, obsession, murder, adaptation, police, nudity, sex scene, investigation, female nudity, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Death Do Us Part (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kennedy Jamieson, a wealthy socialite, has waited her whole life to have the perfect wedding. Engaged to the charming Ryan Harris, the young couple is just a week away from the big day but hasn't had a chance to celebrate their respective ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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