Movies like Joshua 2006

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Joshua (2006)
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Joshua (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of his hometown telling that his father had just died from heart attack. He decides to return to Bisbee for the funeral and Amelia goes with him. Kelby and Amelia lodge at his mother's house and he meets his slut sister Trish, his former friends James Lilly and the policeman Wally and his unknown uncle Tom. When Wally has a nervous breakdown with the name of Joshua, Kelby is haunted by the evil past in Bisbee.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, realistic
Plot: dysfunctional family, serial killer, youth, gory, parents and children, homecoming, social relations, small town life, babies and infants, small town, past, town, nightmare, empire, deadly, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about deadly, danger, gory, serial killer, murder, youth and psychopath mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like Joshua: Antisocial Behaviour (2007), Scar (2005), Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust (2011), Maneater (2009), Bloody Homecoming (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Antisocial Behaviour (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jakob Kelser is a lonely man living in a run-down house on the edge of a council estate. After enduring weeks of aggrevation and torment from local youths , Jacob, in a last-ditch attempt to once again lead a normal life, plots his revenge on his ...
Style: psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, vigilante, vengeance, gang, teenage life, rivalry, youth, gory, violence, serial killer, revenge, anti hero ...
Time: 21st century
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95%
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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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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 ⇓
94%
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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 ⇓
92%
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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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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 ⇓
85%
Shattered Lives (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, curses spells and rituals, split personality, danger, parents and children, family problems, youth, doll, hallucination, bad kids, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Last Laugh (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A stand-up comedian on the verge of breakout success must make a terrible choice when he discovers a murderer on the loose in the theater where he's about to perform his biggest show.
Style: slasher, realistic, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, stand up comedian, social differences, live performance, party, characters killed one by one, uncover truth, nightlife, gory, murder witness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Night Shadow (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: werewolf, small town, murder, monster, supernatural, hitchhiker, journalist, gory, small town life, dangerous animal, journalism, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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79%
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Dead Clowns (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The residents of Port Emmett prepare for a hurricane that will churn up a 50-year-old secret, awakening an army of zombie clowns. Left to die after a circus train accident, the clowns rise from their muddy graves to get revenge. The guilty can run, ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, killer clown, vengeance, supernatural, clown, gory, small town, circus, evil clown, danger, brutality, dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 492
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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 ⇓
78%
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 ⇓
75%
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 2K
Nailbiter (2013)
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 ...
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 6K
Devour (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Friends become increasingly addicted to a video game that has an evil agenda.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, satanic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, youth, occult, psychopath, nightmare, obsession, supernatural ability, high school, teenage life, gory, tattoo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Walking the Dead (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: His latest offering from serial horror movie director, Melanie Ansley is sure to send a chill down your spine. Charles, a western reporter, is exiled to a small village in south china where he discovers the most extraordinary story... He finds a ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: supernatural, survival, escapades, small town life, danger, zombie, village life, social relations, small town, village, journalism, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Snow White: A Deadly Summer (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A troubled teenage girl finds herself in a web of lies and deceit when her stepmother attempts to murder her by sending her to a discipline camp.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, danger, youth, isolation, woods, serial killer, violent content, teenage life, gory, snow white, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Psycho Cop (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, survival, youth, danger, violence spree, violence, woods, woman with a gun, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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72%
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Offerings (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.
Style: slasher, christmas horror, cult classic, slasher horror, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, retribution, christmas, killer, teenager, revenge, pizza, escape, psychopath, cons and scams, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
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72%
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Primitive (2011)
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: murder, curses spells and rituals, estrangement, supernatural, mentally unstable, bigfoot, creature, demon, rivalry, showdown, violence, human host ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high school science teacher, Mr.Hill, convinces his student, Kerry Johnson, and a group of her friends to go on an overnight field trip, they find themselves face to face with the darkest side of terror. Not even their worst nightmares will ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, wilderness, teenage life, youth, danger, woods, curses spells and rituals, murder, nightmare, monster, mountain ...
Time: 90s
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69%
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 1K
Blood Widow (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, boarding school, murder, couples, psychopath, danger, isolation, confined, strong violent content, youth, jealousy, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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 ⇓
69%
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Disturbed (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The quiet town of Quartz Hill is about to experience the worst night of the town's history. A notorious killer has escaped from death row with one thought on his mind. Revenge.
Style: psychological, slasher, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, rivalry, psychopath, danger, stalking, murder, rape, teenage life, fugitives, criminal's revenge, prison ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Hoboken Hollow (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, gory, haunted by the past, danger, farm, redneck, murder, bondage, torture, nightmare, wrestling, backwoods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival horror, deadly creature, danger, youth, plague, isolation, teenage life, gory, chaos, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 2.8
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Dr. Chopper (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Five young friends head out to the country for a weekend at the family cabin and run afoul of a group of motorcycle riding madwomen led by the sadistic, knife-wielding plastic surgeon Dr. Fielding.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, psychopath, obsession, gang, danger, stalking, escapades, youth, isolation, supernatural, mad doctor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Kill the Scream Queen (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: bondage, serial killer, torture, psychopath, danger, strong violent content, dishonesty, filmmaking, woman in danger, gory, captivity, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Blood Runs Cold (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Winona, a successful artist looking to get away from her stressful life. Her manager rents her a house in her home town where she runs in to an old boyfriend. They go back to the house, only to find out it is not as empty as they assumed.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, winter, danger, woman in danger, gory, isolation, masked killer, snow, nudity, strong violent content, guts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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