Movies like After Midnight 1989

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After Midnight (1989)
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After Midnight (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town, and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, we have Helgenberger confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
Style: anthology, slasher, psychological, creepy, dark fairy tale, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, afterlife, dog, decapitation, school, macabre, teenage girl, professor, campus, celebration, psychopath, vengeance, urban legend, urban, broken down car, stormy night, nightshift, supernatural, youth, terrorism, stalking, university, teachers and students, student life, high school life ...
Time: year 1989, 80s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about deadly, murder, youth, serial killer, danger, psychopath and gory mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like After Midnight: Hell Night (1981), The Woods Have Eyes (2007), Blood Sisters (1987), Bloodmoon (1990), The Silent Scream (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hell Night (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, serial killer, gory, halloween, monster, survival, brutality, psycho killer, haunted house, blood, student life, decapitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
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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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Blood Sisters (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In 1974, a little boy tries to talk a little girl into getting naked for him, which she refuses and calls him a pervert. He then runs home, which happens to be a brothel where several (extremely unattractive) hookers and their johns roam around in ...
Style: slasher, independent film, slasher horror, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, ghost, occult, sorority, exploitation, nudity, murder, haunted house, campus, lgbtq, teenager, prank ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bloodmoon (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the small town of Coopers Bay, there are two Hi-schools situated right next to each other. There’s Winchester, an all boys comprehensive and St Elizabeth’s, a girl’s only Catholic faculty. They are separated by woodland where pupils from ...
Style: slasher, bloody, independent film, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, teacher student sex, exploitation, student, dead teenager, murder, clergy, youth, investigation, rivalry, betrayal, power relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: oceania
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The Silent Scream (1979)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college student, murder, danger, haunted house, serial murder, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, campus ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, afterlife, spirit, ghost, supernatural, murder, danger, haunted by the past, profanity, legends and myths, supernatural ability, vengeance ...
Time: 2000s, year 1969, 60s, 21st century
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Several teenagers in a small-town in Colorado concoct a July 4th prank based on a frightening legend that goes awry when their friend ends up accidentally killed; however, the teens agree to keep their involvement a secret from the authorities, who ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, prank, supernatural, urban legend, rock concert, small town, deadly creature, vengeance, danger, who done it, psychopath, supernatural ability ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006
Place: colorado, utah, nevada, usa
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Babysitter Wanted (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When she takes a job babysitting a young boy (Kai Caster) for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright (Sarah Thompson) becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling ...
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: babysitter, murder, blood, chase, stalking, danger, mind game, rivalry, psychopath, roommate, telephone call, police officer killed ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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The Mutilator (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As a child, Ed was cleaning his father's hunting rifles for as part of a surprise birthday treat for his old man when one firearm accidentally discharges fatally striking his own mother in the back. His father, Jack Sr came home, saw his wife ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, teenager, murder, psychopath, beach house, maniac, gory, stalking, vengeance, massacre, buddies, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: north carolina
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Final Exam (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, serial killer, prank, campus, bare chested male, psychopath, murder, school, chase, exploitation, fear, high school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place: north carolina
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Detention (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, prank, youth, high school life, isolation, teenage life, high school, detention, stoner, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
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32%
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Simon Says (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some ...
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, stoner, murder, teenage life, woman in danger, danger, youth, college, gory, woods, survival ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
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Dead Tone (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
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Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, gory, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, gay friend, confined ...
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The Absent (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The town of Liberty has many secrets but the darkest is hidden between twin brothers. Vincent and Oscar Burton are only 10 years old when Oscar finds out his parents are trying to kill him for insurance money. Oscar takes it in to his own hands to ...
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Plot: murder, power relations, gory, sexual content, family relations, psychopath, siblings relations, teachers and students, forbidden love, love and romance, child killer, teacher ...
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Dark Ride (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
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Time: year 2003, year 1989, year 1990
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Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A massacre survivor (A.J. Cook) studies serial killers under a famous expert (Bruce Payne), but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, serial killer, police detective, haunted by the past, police investigation, mind game, teenage life, gory, psychopath, law enforcement, danger, youth ...
Time: year 2001
Place: london, europe, england
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29%
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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29%
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After Dark (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Spring break for seven college students is derailed with one wrong turn. A flat tire on a deserted road leaves them stranded after dark in the company of a menacing drifter who may or may not be trying to help.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: spring break, murder, violence, psychopath, danger, brutality, fear, chase, blood, obsession, revenge, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
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Night Visitor (1989)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenager (Derek Rydall) insists he saw a satanist (Allen Garfield) kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.
Style: slasher, neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: high school, supernatural, serial killer, murder, satanism, prostitute, ritual murder, satanic ritual, neighbor, teenager, profanity, youth ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
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29%
Forget Me Not (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, high school, small town, vengeance, haunted by the past, youth, teenage life, electrocution, memory loss, revenge, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century
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29%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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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
Plot: vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, murder, danger, masked killer, violence, xmas, escaped prisoner, pursuit, comeback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
Kill Katie Malone (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, danger, supernatural, buddies, ghost, best friend, afterlife, murder, genie, paranormal, devil, vengeful ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
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Dark House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, supernatural being, trapped in a building ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
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The Locker (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, urban legend, supernatural, danger, youth, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, looking for love, city life, student life, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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28%
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
Style: spooky, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, witch, psychic, telekinesis, revenge, psychic power, mind power, campus, mental disorder, magic, bullying, psychokinesis ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a California teen with an interest in the occult moves to a New England town, she finds that the town teens believe she is a witch sent to seek revenge on the descendants of the people who originally killed another witch a hundred years ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: witchcraft, curse, serial killer, revenge, teen angst, whodunit, murder, fortune teller, phone terror, psychopath, danger, mysterious character ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england, california
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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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