Movies like Death Bell

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Death Bell (2008)
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Death Bell (2008)
Original name: 고사: 피의 중간고사
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On the eve of the dreaded university entrance examinations, the lives of 24 of the smartest and brightest students at one high school, are on the line. Locked inside a classroom and nowhere to escape, a television monitor broadcasts a terrified Hae-yeong, the top student at the high school, tied up and seated on a chair inside an aquarium that slowly begins to fill with water. A voice from the monitor announces if the 24 cannot finish the exam administered within the allotted time given, Hae-yeong will die and so will everyone held captive inside the classroom. Thus begins the examination that will determine whether they live or die.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, slasher, splatter, bloody, suspense, disturbing, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, survival, deathtrap, riddles and clues, youth, rivalry, danger, confined, race against time, gory, teachers and students, murder, teenager, revenge, student, serial killer, killer, twists and turns, trap, game of death, room, body horror, trapped, violent, asian school ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, korea, south korea, seoul
Keyword: challenge

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Most similar movies to Death Bell

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about deadly, survival, serial killer, danger, gory, gore and murder mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Death Bell: Among the Living (2014), Nobody Gets Out Alive (2012), Bloody Homecoming (2013), Kill Theory (2009), Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Se-hee is haunted by her step sister Tae-yeon who used to be a promising swimmer but suddenly killed herself in a swimming pool 2 years ago. During the summer vacation, she joins the study camp at school for upcoming college entrance exam with other ...
Style: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, swimming, school, survival, danger, deathtrap, stalking, confined, youth, captivity, murder, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Among the Living (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It’s a warm and dry summer. Dan, Tom and Victor, three inseparable adolescents, take advantage of the last day of school to wander in the countryside. They jump with joy when they discover an abandoned old film studio, whose many corridors and ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, killer clown, psychopath, evil clown, friendship between boys, youth, danger, vengeance, child in peril, witnessing a crime, small town, clown ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nobody Gets Out Alive (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, youth, danger, woods, survival, strong violent content, rivalry, vengeance, friendship, mind game, teenager, camp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
26%
Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again in the middle of a murder mystery.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, escapades, amateur detective, psychopath, danger, woman in danger, riddles and clues, snow, puzzle, murder, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 2.9
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Below Zero (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, writer's life, losing-it hero, isolation, twists and turns, one last chance, danger, figment, gory, writers, trapped, cold ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Bloody Reunion (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an ...
Style: slasher, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: gory, murder, psychopath, vengeance, youth, rivalry, prank, hardcase students, teachers and students, captivity, hardcore, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Unforgiving (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two survivors, who appear unwilling to answer questions, are the only links authorities have to a spate of attacks that have hit rural South Africa.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, danger, survival, countryside, body horror, violence, murder, violent, extreme, life is a bitch, cons and scams, sexual abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Six best friends find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight for their lives against a serial killer who has more in store for them than death.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school student, serial killer, violence, friendship, maniac, characters killed one by one, psychopath, death, murder, revenge, chase, sadistic psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Inhuman Resources (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Redd). He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, confined, captivity, held captive, workplace, psychopath, violent content, danger, boss and employee, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.4
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The Choke (2006)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rock, survival, teenage life, gory, rave, danger, stalking, murder, rock and roll, serial killer, hard rock, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
House of Fears (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: halloween, supernatural, survival, confined, ghost, danger, teenage life, killer clown, supernatural power, clown, haunted house, half sister ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dead in 3 Days (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank -- until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, survival, haunted by the past, psychopath, vengeance, best friend, danger, riddles and clues, sex, bullying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Last Matinee (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a stormy night in Montevideo, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. But, unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she’s running ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: maniac, underage drinking, male female friendship, studying, taxi, father daughter relationship, serial killer, survival, bloody violence, sadist, survival horror, murder ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, 21st century
Place: uruguay
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, gory, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, gay friend, confined ...
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Don't Let Him In (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, danger, isolation, countryside, couples, murder, fear, violence, travel, violent, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
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Saw V (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.
Style: scary, bloody, suspense, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, game of death, trap, psychopath, mind game, violent, kidnapping, blood, gory, vigilante, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Collection (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, trap, kidnapping, torture, masked killer, sadistic horror, massacre, survival, psychopath, escape, crazy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 2.4
 4K
Nine Lives (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, ghost, danger, confined, supernatural, gory, murder, survival, isolation, haunted house, campus, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Pray for Morning (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, supernatural, ghost, survival, captivity, danger, gory, riddles and clues, murder, isolation, buddies, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Final Destination (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, death, life & death, survival, characters killed one by one, destiny, danger, group of friends, disaster, freak accident, psychic, gory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, year 2003, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 32K
Them (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style: scary, tense, disturbing, creepy, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: home invasion, couples, killer child, breaking and entering, stranger, danger, violence, isolation, forest, invasion, teenage life, blood ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place: europe, bucharest, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.1
 2K
Sutures (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of longtime friends converge on a fatal course with destiny when they cross paths with Alexander Tatum, a mercenary surgeon. He is a hunter with the keen skill of one who has also been hunted. Prey turned predator. The victims quickly ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: survival, serial killer, police detective, black market, murder, captivity, gory, escapades, chases and races, danger, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
 4.2
 4K
Open Graves (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: One day, Jason finds an unusual board game called Mamba. When his surfer friends start to play, the games unleashes its deadly curse, killing the losers in a gruesome fashion. Supposedly it will grant the winner a wish. As his companions die off, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, surfing, buddies, danger, contests and competitions, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, burned alive, dice, obsession, american horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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