Movies like The Encounter 2015
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The Encounter (2015)
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
forest, camping, found footage, struggle for survival, sole survivor, murder, alien contact, danger, storytelling, witch, ufo, alien abduction, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, survival, violence, found footage and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Encounter: Curtain (2015), Hangar 10 (2014), Eyes in the Dark (2010), The Outwaters (2022), Bane (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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561
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Danni moves into a New York apartment and starts sprucing the place up. She doesn’t know the previous tenant committed suicide in very strange circumstances. Nor does she know there’s a mysterious portal to another dimension in the bathroom ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot:
portal, murder, creature, investigation, monster, danger, parallel world, relocation, violence, struggle for survival, paranormal, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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95%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
ufo, alien encounter, danger, woods, found footage, alien, no survivors, forest, creature, survival, evil alien, space and aliens ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Secret video files just discovered on an FBI server prove that the government has been hiding unexplained disappearances and a dangerous presence in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
Style:
mockumentary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
legend, forest, found footage, college student, survival, evil, group of friends, danger, murder, death, violence, monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
Style:
spooky, psychological, captivating, tense, experimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
found footage, camping, time travel, wilderness, alternate dimension, survival, problem, creature, desert, witch, male nudity, male pubic hair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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605
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Held captive in an underground prison by a sadistic sicko who fancies himself a surgeon, 4 women fight for their lives, knowing the exact time they're scheduled to die thanks to a crudely carved set of numbers on each of their bodies. None of ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot:
alien, experiment, danger, isolation, confined, survival, violence, murder, serial killer, torture, trapped, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Films like Alien Abduction
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot:
virus, conspiracy, vaccine, war veteran, scientist, danger, murder, supernatural, epidemic, apocalypse, distopia, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
559
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
"Uncharted" is a story of a documentary film crew who crash on an island, when they were in hopes of finding a rare animal, a jaguar, that is believed to inhabit the jungle. Unfortunate circumstances arise when her charter plane goes down ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, danger, isolation, wilderness, confined, island, violence, murder, redneck, found footage, airplane crash, witch ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Vanessa, a documentary filmmaker, and she is making a film about folklore. Her best friend Brad was meant to help her, but he instead decides to go on a date with new love Jessica, who he met online. His new girlfriend persuades Vanessa to join him ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark
Plot:
found footage, 666, evil force, danger, demonic possession, paranormal activity, supernatural, haunted house, fear, witch, internet dating
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
monster, dangerous animal, curses spells and rituals, danger, survival, murder, supernatural, deathtrap, rivalry, isolation, violence, group of strangers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, mockumentary, futuristic ...
Plot:
found footage, alien abduction, farm, alien encounter, alien, ufo, danger, countryside, survival horror, alien invasion, evil alien, survival ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Movies similar to The Outwaters
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, found footage, pregnancy, missing child, danger, family relations, investigation, uncover truth, babies and infants, alien, witch, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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, cemetery, crypt, struggle for survival, deadly creature, murder, treasure hunt ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, woods, fear, danger, supernatural, survival, hysteria, wilderness, panic, monster, missing person, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"An idyllic summer day turns into a living nightmare ... With school finally over, college graduate Natalie Wilner returns to her hometown to celebrate the Fourth of July weekend. But beneath the flags and fireworks lurks a dark, malevolent ...
Style:
slasher, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, murder, pursuit, sociopath, danger, getting home, college graduate, holiday horror, survival, slice of life, psycho killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Movies similar to Bastard
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, scary
Plot:
island, curse, halloween, storm, forest, small town, survival, monster, fear, violence, danger, supernatural horror ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
497
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 ⇓
55%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Amelia's claustrophobic life with Aunt Helen is disrupted when her past tries to push through to her present.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic
Plot:
murder, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, survivor, danger, uncover truth, evil spirit, pursuit, violence, fear, paranormal, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, wish come true, danger, youth, rivalry, curse, murder, group of friends, radio, beauty, teenage life, imaginary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
570
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
danger, captivity, confined, kidnapping, abduction, survival, violence, murder, wrestling, kidnapped, escape, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Gerber's Syndrome is an contagious viral disease that was discovered in Germany in 2008 and spread all over the world. It is extremely contagious, fast spreading, and deadly. This syndrome is very difficult to spot, because it's like a ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, psychological, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, terminal illness, danger, plague, body horror, virus, vaccine, society, pandemic, life is a bitch, deadly virus, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, danger, murder, creature feature, hidden truth, group of friends, violence, urban legend, creature, psychic, psychic power, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, chaos, small town, supernatural, small community, dark secret, under the surface, survival, violent content, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, investigation, space travel, alien, memory loss, mistaken identity, alien encounter, danger, supernatural, abduction, alien invasion ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of young people become lost in the jungle during a river rafting trip and stumble upon a long lost ruin that is home to a host of mysterious monsters.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
creature, human experiment, doctor, abandoned, murder, survival, danger, violence, zombie, travel, monster, jungle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies similar to Ritual
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on true events, five friends who fall prey to the evil entities of the Ouija board. As they set about filming their experimental session, what starts out as bit of fun, soon escalates into a terrifying series of events as paranoia and personal ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, ouija board, supernatural, ghost, danger, ouija, curse, friendship, group of friends, dishonesty, food, witch ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A zealous vigilante looking to clean the Internet of sin targets a group of teens that broadcast misadventures on their chatroom.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, stalker, abduction, murder, undercover, danger, investigation, online dating, sin, internet, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, mental institution, supernatural, survival, haunted house, danger, isolation, confined, haunted by the past, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, danger, psychopath, murder, survival, violence, brutality, massacre, gory, fear, blood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A brilliant female recluse sends a distress signal into outer space from a remote location. When the Aliens arrive, they realize it's not a distress signal, it's an ingenious trap designed to exact revenge on the extraterrestrials who ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, scary, captivating
Plot:
ufo, alien, recluse, revenge, space, space and aliens, vengeance, alien contact, alien abduction, avenge, abduction, outer space
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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