Movies like Escape: Puzzle of Fear
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Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)
723
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
survival horror, escape room, vengeance, danger, survival, psychopath, violence, death, torture, murder, trap, brutality, insanity, sadism, vigilante, race against time, trapped, characters in danger, female nudity, bare breasts, locked in a room, confinement indoors, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Escape: Puzzle of Fear
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, psychotronic and suspenseful films with plots about violence, psychopath, brutality, survival, murder, trap and vengeance mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Escape: Puzzle of Fear: Dead End (2012), File Box (2013), Odds Are (2018), Thirty Proof Coil (2010), Bring Me a Dream (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
370
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Carl Foster takes off on a well-deserved weekend break with his family knowing only too well that focus on work has impacted his relationship with his wife, young son, and teenage step-daughter. But after a short but restful break in the journey ...
Style:
scary, bleak, psychotronic, slasher, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival horror, vigilante, isolation, extreme violence, fear, characters in danger, murder, torture, sadism, confinement indoors, trap, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five people appear in footage travelling to and exploring an abandoned military medical testing base obtained in a file box.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot:
found footage, violence, violent, survival, murder, psychopath, revenge, serial murder, escape attempt, youth, serial killer, sadist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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668
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three college students play a challenge game called Odds Are... It quickly erupts into a nightmare for the participants who find themselves caught in an unpredictable web of deceit and survival. Based on actual events.
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
abuse, survival horror, game, house, stranger, murder, nightmare, friends, trap, game of death, fear, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman is kidnapped by a mysterious stranger and chained in an eerie, dilapidated barn. Unwilling to play the victim, she plots a daring escape. With thirst and hunger bearing down, her grip on reality loosens. Can she free herself from the ...
Style:
tense, scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence, characters in danger, confinement indoors, vigilante, revenge, abuse, sadistic horror, trapped, vengeance, brutality, trap, game of death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
on the run for murder, Avery Quinn bursts into Alpha Omega Pi house looking for help. Desperate to prove her innocence and her sanity, she holds a handful of people hostage and forces them into the reality of her ongoing nightmare. As a last resort, ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
survival horror, nightmare, ritual, pagan, blood, survival, murder, game of death, youth, characters in danger, sadist, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Join your inhuman host, Festering Frank, as he digs out from his grave to bring you five brand new tales of gore-soaked glory. Featuring gooey graveyards, mutilated mothers, sicko Santas and copulating carve-ups. Finally an anthology that will suck ...
Style:
bleak, scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, sadism, chase, captivity, torture, serial killer, trap, vigilante, escape attempt, mind game, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A famous actress is trapped by an unknown captor in the limo sent to take her to the gala at which she will collect a lifetime achievement award.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
sadistic horror, torture, psychopath, violence, vengeance, survival, fear, trap, brutality, female protagonist, woman in danger, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their maniacal, mysterious captor.
Style:
psychotronic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murderer, vigilante, survival horror, brutality, psychopath, game of death, survival, experiment, torture, human experiment, insanity, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
53%
751
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
After struggling to find employment, Amanda takes a hotel position in a small town where she ends up fighting for her life.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
abuse, trapped, sadistic horror, survival horror, female villain, torture, kidnapping, female protagonist, game of death, sadist, insanity, terrorizing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Four actors go on an audition for a new experimental play in New York City. They had no idea that they would be auditioning for their lives. When director Victor Marx makes this theater of the macabre far too real the four actors find themselves in ...
Style:
experimental, psychotronic, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
trapped, survival horror, survival, torture, game of death, strong violent content, characters in danger, escapades, terrorizing, sadist, vigilante, mind game ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young woman enlists in an underground game of pain endurance in the hope of winning the million dollar prize. She soon learns the real opponent is the man who's running the game, as he employs horrific methods to manipulate and defeat her.
Style:
contemplative, disturbing, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
deathtrap, locked in a room, trapped, survival horror, insanity, female protagonist, woman in danger, characters in danger, violence, revenge, heroes, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Everyday, thousands of immigrants line the parking lots of hardware stores and climb into cars with strangers they've never met, all for the promise of paid work. In Beneath Us, a group of undocumented workers are lured into the home of Liz ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
survival, game of death, nightmare, psychopath, violence, survival horror, brutality, worker, hostage, killer, terror, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, survival horror, war veteran, murder, mystery killer, brutality, violence, strong violent content, survival, vigilante, game of death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
abuse, survival horror, phobia, fear, doctor, patient, evil doctor, death, torture, brutality, psychopath, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Meredith is a girl who so desperately tries to fit in with the beautiful people. A group of beauty pageant girls that have been friends since they were kids. When her attempts fail, and the bullying laps over into adulthood from these girls, ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, slasher, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
game of death, young girl, revenge, bullying, vengeance, extreme violence, sadist, mastermind, killing, trap, escapades, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A pizza delivery girl making her last stop of the night is lured into a trap. While attempting to escape, she encounters a group of campers who are enduring a terrifying nightmare of their own.
Style:
bleak, scary, psychotronic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
471
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young aspiring musician preparing for a competition, is incredibly confidant and gets herself involved in a frightening trap that she has to find her way out of. It raises the question: If an insane person is telling a story, is it real?
Style:
psychological, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
musician, survival horror, characters in danger, insanity, mind game, captivity, fear, brutality, self harm, survival, chase, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A rare family night for Jay takes a brutal twist when he awakens in a basement with three other prisoners. As their vengeful captor runs riot, Jay engages in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family's future.
Style:
psychological, suspense, bleak, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
game of death, murderer, abuse, vengeance, captivity, trapped, revenge, sadistic horror, vigilante, extreme violence, strong violent content, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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970
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young woman's hunt for her missing sister ends at a rundown bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills run by an ill-tempered woman called Mommy. Disturbing messages left by former guests suggest unsettling secrets lay buried there.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bleak, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
nightmare, hallucination, killing, revenge, fear, psychopath, survival, death, trap, insanity, vigilante, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dangerous People takes place in the early 1970's and is about two murders who pick up a girl in a bar and then take her back to their apartment. A moment of brutal violence occurs which leads to a series of mind games to see who lives and who ...
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Plot:
confinement indoors, murder, violence, killing, confined, sadist, captivity, characters in danger, deathtrap, violent, mind game, sadistic horror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
816
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of young people went on a abandoned hostel in Sligo, Ireland. After they play a really creepy game, all of them disappear.
Style:
suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two women and a man find themselves mysteriously thrown together on one endless night in an isolated house in the middle of a forest.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic, bleak
Plot:
trap, trapped, vengeance, brutality, confinement indoors, violence, insanity, youth, mind game, revenge, isolation, deathtrap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
Julia, better known as Jewel to her friends and family, is a teenage runaway who is unwilling to live within the rules and boundaries set by her parents. She has run away once before, and her father's connections have kept that quiet. This ...
Style:
suspenseful, brutal, scary, bleak, slasher ...
Plot:
killing, trap, psychopath, isolation, vigilante, fear, brutality, survival, survival horror, trapped, vengeance, abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Movie in collections
3K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A couple's ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated vacation rental by an unseen Voice that commands their every move.
Style:
brutal, suspense, bleak, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
masked man, held captive, home invasion, marriage, trap, vigilante, psychopath, survival horror, brutality, infidelity, surveillance camera, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A fateful chain of events begin to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped in a stranger's basement.
Style:
psychological, scary, psychotronic, suspense, humorous ...
Plot:
survival horror, trapped, violence, maniac, masked killer, fear, survival, psychopath, danger, violent, mystery killer, murder ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
Style:
unusual plot structure, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
home invasion, robbery, brutality, violence, murder, psychopath, alter ego, danger, blood, chase, death, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Thriller about a villain who specializes in home invasions. He breaks in, drugs the liquids in the fridge, and waits for his victims to lose consciousness. Then his fun begins.
Style:
bleak, suspense, slasher, psychotronic
Plot:
breaking and entering, drugged, photographer, intruder, psychopath, nude, violent, locked in a room, video surveillance, society, sadistic horror, deathtrap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
6 models arrive at a warehouse to audition for a fashion show being hosted by the biggest talent agency in the city. Little do they know, the MC hosting the audition knows their innermost demons and intends to judge them for past sins.
Style:
bleak, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
model, survival horror, hell, warehouse, rape, judge, killing, brutality, society, playing god, sadistic horror, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When desecrated corpses and ritualistic symbols start appearing, the residents of Morningside, New Jeresey, are thrust into an unreal world of darkness.
Style:
slasher, bleak, scary, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, police officer, masked killer, dying woman, criminal, violence, danger, dishonesty, chase, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, vengeance, survival, danger, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, feral man, diner, small town, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, west virginia
Similarity:
45%
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