Movies like Screamplay

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Screamplay (1984)
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Screamplay (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the murders that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.
Style: slasher, dark comedy, psychological, surreal, black and white, scary, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: writers, serial killer, killer, nightmare, murder, hollywood, gory, filmmaking, writer's life, artists and showbiz, death, rock star, dwarf, insanity, actress, screenwriter, supernatural power, surrealism, filmmaker, deadly, head ripped off, apartment, tongue in cheek, crimes, little person
Time: 80s, 20th century

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Most similar movies to Screamplay

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, realistic and humorous films with plots about deadly, serial killer, murder, gory, psychopath, danger and killer mostly in Horror, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Screamplay: Shock Value (2014), The Janitor (2003), The Scenesters (2009), Actress Apocalypse (2005), Woodchipper Massacre (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
 5.5
 488
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 ⇓
82%
 5.5
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The Scenesters (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, fish out of water, disorder, who done it, amateur detective, hipster, filmmaker, found footage, whodunit, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Actress Apocalypse (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This saucy mockumentary follows a first-time filmmaker with ambitions to make "the greatest movie ever made," a low-budget slasher boasting a Native American killer. The director knows buxom starlets are the key to his success. But when ...
Style: scary, not serious, humorous, mockumentary, suspense ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, woman in danger, starlet, danger, artists and showbiz, murder, filmmaking, gory, exploitation, graphic violence, heavy metal ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Woodchipper Massacre (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jon, Tom, and Denise accidently kill their senile old Aunt while she's looking after them while their father is away on business. Not sure what to do, they decide to dispose of the body in the rented woodchipper in the backyard. But more ...
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, massacre, killer, family relations, danger, fugitives, psychopath, siblings relations, prison, suburbs, gory ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Attitude for Destruction (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Hollywood Roses is starting to make it big and they’re ready for the next step. Of course all their success has come after the band killed off the original founder, Drake. Once they realized he was holding them back, they turned on him and now ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, scary, slasher ...
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, music band, vengeance, rivalry, showbiz, investigation, artists and showbiz, murder, rock, heavy metal, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Lucky (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ever have one of those lifetimes where nothing seems to go right? Failing cartoon writer, Millard Mudd, has sunk deep into one. Living hermit-like and existing on a strict alcohol diet, Mudd's world has collapsed. But one day everything changes ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, split personality, writer's life, supernatural ability, unlikely partners, dark humor, one more chance, talking dog, violent content, imaginary, solitary, writers ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
This Girl for Hire (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother ...
Style: slapstick, humorous, suspenseful, witty, cynical ...
Plot: private investigator, murder, hollywood, store, filmmaking, showbiz, artists and showbiz, private detective, law enforcement, investigation, female detective, failed pilot ...
Time: 1940s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Sorority Party Massacre (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In danger of losing his badge, a big city detective agrees to aid a small town sheriff in a routine missing persons investigation only to discover that at least one girl has gone missing in this sleepy fishing town each year for the last twenty ...
Style: slasher, sexy, humorous, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, sorority, missing person, gory, violence spree, danger, murder, woman in danger, nudity, college, retribution, massacre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1977 a group of young, horny, out of control Christians are spending a fun filled weekend at the mountain lakeside Happy Day Bible Camp. One by one these youthful sinners pay a BLOODY penance for their misdeeds. Flash forward 7 years, when ...
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, camp, summer camp, murder, psychopath, danger, profanity, serial killer, dark humor, violence, death, fear ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1977
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Siblings Monroe (Monroe Mann) and Hilary (Crystal Arnette) have discovered that they have inherited a lake house and to make things even better, the famous horror author Stephen King is rumoured to live somewhere nearby. They decide to take their ...
Style: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: youth, buddies, murder, danger, exploitation, fear, clown, name calling, serial killer, group of friends, killing spree, masked killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
61%
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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 ⇓
61%
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Freak Out (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two best friends, Merv Doody (James Heathcote) and Onkey (Dan Palmer), take a hapless escaped mental patient under their wing and attempt to teach him how to become a real serial killer.
Style: slasher, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, violence spree, vengeance, insanity, chaos and mayhem, stalking, danger, zombie, best friend, hockey, gory ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.
Style: grindhouse, classic horror, dark comedy, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, cannibal, cannibalism, exploitation, killer, fear, freak, diner, bondage, death, violence ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 1K
Smash Cut (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, scary, bloody, suspense ...
Plot: sexy nurse, serial killer, private detective, filmmaking, partners against crime, psychopath, unfulfillment, violence spree, gory, missing sister, screenwriter, stripper ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Taming of the Shrews (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A horror-comedy of errors, Die-ner (get it?) explores the existential dilemma of a sociopath killer who runs into the unique problem of his victims rising from the dead...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, scary, realistic
Plot: serial killer, diner, supernatural, hostage, small town, gory, zombie, zombie apocalypse, flesh eating, machete, pistol, flashback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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 ⇓
55%
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Triloquist (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In 1993, in Hollywood, California, a decadent ventriloquist overdoses and dies, leaving her two children to be sent to a foster house with their dummy. Their lives become a nightmare of abuse and murder, to be avenged by a wrathful dummy.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, horror comedy ...
Plot: puppet, doll, murder, orphan, dysfunctional family, psychopath, family relations, estrangement, drug abuse, gory, alcohol abuse, serial killer ...
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 901
Scream (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
Style: slasher, cult classic, independent film, scary, realistic ...
Plot: river, serial killer, exploitation, ghost town, ghost, rafting, psychopath, confined, danger, prodigy, on the run, buddies ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Evil Eyes (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about starts to actually happen.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: serial killer, screenwriter, premonition, psychopath, gory, profanity, supernatural being, pregnancy, violent content, forces of nature, sexual content, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Homebodies (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, political, independent film, scary ...
Plot: elderly, murder, senior citizen, mental disorder, exploitation, apartment building, widower, old age, aging, assassination, danger, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Drive In Massacre (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, murder investigation, gory, danger, stalking, police chase, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Doctor Hackenstein (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
Style: horror comedy, independent film, slapstick, scary, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: body horror, killer, serial killer, mad scientist, dealing with death, danger, supernatural, disorder, mutant, gory, reincarnation, mental illness ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Scarecrow Gone Wild (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: College mischief spins out of control unleashing a horrifying scarecrow who terrorizes a resort town during Spring Break.
Style: slasher, humorous, rough, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killer scarecrow, vengeance, serial killer, disorder, prank, youth, gory, resort, mythical creature, gay, spring break, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Do You Like My Basement (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Do You Like My Basement? tracks how one man's creative frustration bore a need to make the perfect horror film. Stanley Farmer was rejected universally by the film world. His frustration provoked a darker side and soon cunning, guile, devilish ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, scary, feel good ...
Plot: sociopath, serial killer, psychopath, actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, gory, missing child, down on your luck, filmmaking, found footage, voyeurism
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Luther the Geek (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: As a young child Luther The Geek or "The Freak" witnesses a band of men goading a geek (a man who bites off chicken's heads and drinks the blood) into performing. In the ensuing hullabaloo, Luther bites his lip and likes the taste of ...
Style: slasher, controversial, disturbing, dark, psychotronic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, killer, feral man, chicken, geek, female nudity, supernatural, mind game, stalking, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 3.2
 542
Beyond Bedlam (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An experiment gone awry places a neurologist (Elizabeth Hurley) and a homicide detective (Craig Fairbrass) in a psychopath's (Keith Allen) nightmarish world.
Style: detective, psychological, scary, independent film, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, mad scientist, hallucination, suicide, killer, experiment, scientist, laboratory, down on your luck, murder, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.2
 170K
Scream 4 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, teen horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, serial murder, high school, woman in danger, telephone call, gory, psychopath, murder, small town, revenge ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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