Movies like The Black Phone

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The Black Phone (2021)
 6.9
 189K
The Black Phone (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Style: suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, psychological horror, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, kidnapping, child abduction, struggle for survival, basement, serial child killer, victim, phone terror, locked in a basement, homicidal maniac, kidnapped, masked killer, escape attempt, small town, serial killer, psycho killer, kidnapped boy, child killer, bullying, teenager, clue, supernatural, serial murder, teenage boy, masked villain ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado
Keyword: mexican, change, salute

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Most similar movies to The Black Phone

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, slasher, disturbing and suspenseful films with plots about murder, blood, supernatural, terror, violence, serial killer and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Black Phone: Summer of 84 (2018), The Strangers (2008), When a Stranger Calls (2006), House of Wax (2005), Split (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.7
 46K
Summer of 84 (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.
Style: suspense, disturbing, slasher, psychological, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, group of friends, friendship, psychopath, murder, neighbor, murder suspect, private investigation, basement, murder mystery, child killer, cop ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 2010s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 142K
The Strangers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, babysitter, psychopath, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, maniac, danger, survival, high school student ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 546K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, mental illness, murder, psychopath, psycho, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, paranoia, serial killer, schizophrenia, violence ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.8
 688K
Get Out (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, brainwashing, interracial romance, survival, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, african american protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, future, 21st century
Place: indiana, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.3
 60K
Sinister 2 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Style: scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, evil child, burned alive, nightmare, investigation, deputy, ghost child, abusive husband, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 601K
It (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: killer clown, supernatural horror, clown, evil clown, small town, stephen king, fear, monster, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1989, 2010s, year 2017, 80s, year 1988
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 5.3
 7K
Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 139K
Oculus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, mirror, supernatural horror, danger, siblings relations, paranormal activity, ghost, insanity, brother sister relationship, demon, hallucination ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, year 2002, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 8K
The Tortured (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Style: sadistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: torture, kidnapping, bloody violence, child murder, gory, revenge, sadism, child killer, psychopath, homicidal maniac, death of son, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 107K
Vacancy (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, hostage, survival horror, macabre, danger, estranged couple, masked killer, kidnapped, motel ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 153K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, survival, deaf, female protagonist, deafness, violence, masked killer, brutality, murder, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
You Should Have Left (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear ...
Style: suspense, mystical, splatter, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murderer, drowning, house, family life, time loop, jealous husband, nightmare, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, missing child, husband wife conflict, countryside ...
Time: 2020s
Place: wales, london, mexico, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for ...
Style: scary, slasher, dark comedy, mockumentary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, small town, insanity, satire, found footage, journalism, dark humor, blood, maniac ...
Time: y2k, year 2006
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 176K
Barbarian (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, spooky, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basement, fear, psychopath, locked in a room, kidnapping, secret passageway, plot twist, inbreeding, locked in, serial killer, female protagonist, house ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: detroit, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 278K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
 6.9
 87K
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, hypnosis, supernatural, psychic, supernatural horror, murder, clairvoyance, paranoia, able to see the dead, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.0
 4K
The Basement (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.
Style: brutal, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: held captive, killer clown, maniac, homicidal maniac, execution, torture, serial killer, psycho killer, kidnapping, missing person, psycho, psychopath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 15K
The Den (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, murder, danger, panic, cyberspace, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 71K
Urban Legend (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, college, strangulation, serial murder, killer, murder, teenager, blood, gory, gas station, dark and stormy night ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Night House (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Style: dark, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, demonic possession, afterlife, grief, forest, depressed woman, suicide, ghost, widow, high school student, female protagonist, invisibility ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
My Soul to Take (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: urban legend, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, psychopath, haunted by the past, serial killer, danger, small town, gory, nightmare comes true, youth ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 27K
Alone (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, trapped, chase, psychopath, road rage, struggle for survival, kidnapped woman, maniac, lost in the woods, highway, escape, river ...
Time: 2020s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.5
 42K
Deep Red (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style: psychological, gothic, disturbing, slasher, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder mystery, psychopath, visceral, supernatural, danger, female psychopath, mental illness, intrigue, manic, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, australia, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, black comedy, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: child abuse, serial killer, home invasion, kidnapping, cannibalism, disturbed individual, rottweiler, murder, incest, cannibal, child in peril, guard dog ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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