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Appointment with Fear (1985)
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Appointment with Fear (1985)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An Egyptian god figures into a bizarre murder investigation where the suspect uses astral projection to murder at will.
Style: slasher, surprise ending, splatter, ambiguous ending, independent film
Plot: serial killer, murder, evil spirit, dream, demon, police officer, police, investigation, stalker, mental institution, evil wins, ritual, woman, female protagonist, possessed human, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder of a woman, son, possession, child care, psychiatric patient, pursuit, insane asylum, husband murders wife ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, independent film, scary and splatter films with plots about murder, serial killer, blood, supernatural, psychopath, danger and violence mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Appointment with Fear: 555 (1988), Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006), Trick or Treats (1982), My Demon Lover (1987), Pumpkinhead (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with ...
Style: slasher, scary, surreal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, supernatural, nightmare, dream, dead teenager, sleep disorder, trapped, serial murder, nightmare on elm street, nightmare comes true ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: los angeles, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, bloody, classic horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, comic book, nightmare on elm street, supernatural, vengeance, murder, gory, blood, psycho terror, child killer, serial teen killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1992, 1940s
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. ...
Style: slasher, scary, splatter, classic horror, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, amnesia, monster, dream, blood, nightmare on elm street, vengeance, human monster, husband murders wife, serial teen killer, murder ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, 1950s, 60s, 70s ...
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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555 (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings ...
Style: slasher, detective, splatter, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: serial killer, murder, maniac, killer, violence, decapitation, colonel, blood, necrophilia, sergeant, hippie, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil (2002)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In this sequel, two juvenile detention officers must escort a group of criminally-inclined urban kids to the country where they are being forced to renovate a shelter for teens as punishment for their crimes. After one of them is shot by a local, ...
Style: slasher, bloody, suspense, scary, semi serious ...
Plot: clown, killer clown, danger, isolation, evil clown, serial killer, amusement park, mythical creature, villain, blaxploitation, violent content, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: murder, monster, small town, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, demon, swamp, supernatural, police, creature, imaginary, afterlife ...
Time: year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Trick or Treats (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.
Style: slasher, bloody, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, independent film ...
Plot: halloween, mental institution, insane asylum, teenager, babysitter, evil child, tribe, false accusation, practical joke, news reporter, decapitation, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1982, year 2016, 80s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
My Demon Lover (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denny has yet again been left by her thug boyfriend Chip. It seems as if she is doomed to be stuck with awful guys, this time she has to choose between nerdy Charles and the strange Kaz, who turns into a monster when sexually aroused.
Style: humorous, independent film, semi serious, offbeat, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, violence, serial killer, homelessness, demon, violent content, animal life, couples, danger, dangerous animal, fall in love, switching roles ...
Time: year 1987
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 27K
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, witch, vengeance, murder, pumpkin, revenge, monster, macabre, father son relationship, curse, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Skull: The Mask (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: possession, revenge, vengeance, serial killer, masked killer, maniac, brutality, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 513
The Coroner (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Emma is just trying to be a good lawyer but she has the distinct feeling she's being watched. Soon after this feeling hits her, someone actually kidnaps her. Stuck in a basement she is tortured but eventually escapes. But her nightmare has only ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: revenge killing, serial killer, torture, voyeur, maniac, suicide attempt, murder, kidnapping, police, psychopath, lawyer, sword ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 2.4
 553
Dark Fields (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Out of gas on a dark country road and forced to seek help at a farmhouse, five teenagers on their way to a rock concert step into a nightmare as they're hunted by a twisted killer with an ax.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: redneck, serial killer, killer, teenager, stalker, axe murderer, farm, police
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Keep My Grave Open (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, ambiguous ending, slasher horror
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, serial killer, emotional abuse, psychopath, mental illness, suicide, murder, hitchhiker, investigation, house, sword, sex crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Twisted Nightmare (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, splatter, slasher horror, teen horror ...
Plot: summer camp, virus, serial killer, murder, supernatural power, asian, fear, african american, exploitation, female nudity, teenager, supernatural horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.5
 1K
Bastard (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policemen, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.
Style: slasher, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, struggle for survival, murder, maniac, danger, pursuit, violence, rivalry, manhunt, wedding, couple relations, police officer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: demon, supernatural, ritual, family feud, wedding, ghost, supernatural ability, tragic love, vigilantism, death in the family, monster, love ...
Time: year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Midnight Movie (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In the 1970's, a slasher flick was released named The Dark Beneath. The director and star of the movie Ted Radford suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. His doctor attempts to cure him by showing him his movie, ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, chase, psychopath, danger, violence spree, obsession, race against time, mind game, gory, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.4
 672
Hellborn (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense
Plot: serial killer, human experiment, devil worship, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, supernatural, mental illness, psychopath, power relations, supernatural ability, ghost, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 3.1
 678
Blood Lake (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Six teenagers decide to party one weekend, but before the partying begins one couple disappears. Only to be fount brutally murdered. A blood thirsty killer is stalking their summer playground. One by one bodies begin to show up, as they become prey ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic, slasher horror, teen horror
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, killer, exploitation, lake, couples, teenager, supernatural horror, murder, blood, death, violence, stalker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 3.3
 255
Drive In (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man, confined to a room across from a drive-in theater showing only horror movies, escapes and goes on a killing rampage.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: serial killer, electrocution, jealousy, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, single mother, female nudity, murder, sex scene, gore, merry go round, film within a film
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 24K
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
Style: suspense, slasher, sexy, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, supernatural, incestuous relationship, vampire, mother son incest, incestuous sex, monster, sex scene, kidnapping, cat, stephen king, violence ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana, usa, california, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.1
 3K
Mortuary (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes in was murder. Christie then see's an unknown figure dressed in a cape ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, horror comedy, bloody, independent film ...
Plot: zombie, cemetery, serial killer, teenager, mental disorder, woman with a gun, 666, undead, haunted, camp, haunted house, occult ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.2
 404
Hollow Gate (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: At a Halloween party, a young boy is almost killed by his drunken, alcoholic father. Ten years afterward, the boy goes on a murder spree.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: halloween, celebration, serial killer, domestic violence, boy, murder, trapped, teenager, halloween party, stalker, dog attack, alcoholic father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 4.6
 212
Sawbones (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An edgy, terrifying tale about an intern who failed medical school... but never gave up surgery.
Style: independent film, slasher
Plot: serial killer, medical, mad doctor, surgeon, blood, psychopath, hospital, murder, police, investigation, surgery, latex gloves ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Someone's Knocking at the Door (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.
Style: slasher, semi serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual abuse, psychopath, doctors and patients, murder, male nudity, danger, school, murder investigation, extreme, erotic scene, female nudity ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.9
 1K
Retribution (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A Manic depressive artist survives a suicidal fall only to be possessed by a murdered gangster, who uses the artist to seek vengeance on those that ended his life.
Style: slasher, cult classic, atmospheric, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: nightmare, supernatural, psychiatry, serial killer, american horror, psychic, revenge, terror, supernatural being, apartment building, investigation, city ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Girls School Screamers (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, exploitation, ouija board, murder, college, ghost, psychopath, teenage life, who done it, gory, reincarnation, school ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.3
 202
Night Ripper! (1986)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A guy who does glamour shots for models and the like gets mixed up in a series of mutilation killings. The murders bare a resemblance to those committed by Jack the Ripper, and the victims are all models. Naturally, the photographer becomes a ...
Style: slasher, surprise ending, slasher horror, independent film
Plot: fashion model, jealousy, death, murder, maniac, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, serial killer, psychopath, serial murder, nudity, lesbianism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Slumber Party (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: On their last day of high school, Linda, Tracy and Chris celebrate by having a slumber party at Linda's house. A few boys drop by and the beer flows like wine. Just good, clean, fun-loving kids. But the girls have another visitor, one they ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: murder, maniac, escaped mental patient, teenager, doctor, nightmare, revenge, serial killer, characters killed one by one, killer, blood, swimming pool ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.7
 808
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 ⇓
44%
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