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A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Why? Starring Allison McAtee, Chris Browning, Michael Krause, Shelby Janes, and more. If you liked Why? then you may also like: Vacancy, Just Before Dawn, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Carver and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Writer Blake Sinclair finds herself in a fight for her life against a bloodthirsty maniac who has been leaving multiple victims in his wake as he returns to the mountain town of Northdale.
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Just Before Dawn
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
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 them.
Bloodthirsty Butchers
Sweeney Todd, a barber, and Maggie Lovett, a baker, join forces to commit a series of brutal, gory murders in London with a little help from Tobias Ragg, an employee of Maggie's bakery. They abduct a number of customers from the barber shop and kill them, baking them into meat pies which are sold to the public.
Seed of Chucky
This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!
Blood Song
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
Poor Albert and Little Annie
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Dance Macabre
Jessica is an American ballerina who reluctantly enrols in a Russian dance academy, where she meets the charismatic choreographer Anthony. A dead ringer for Anthony's long dead lover, Jessica becomes Anthony's favourite student - and his personal obsession. But what should be the chance of a lifetime for Jessica becomes a living nightmare, as each of her fellow dancers is brutally murdered.
The Love Butcher
The twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
Deadly Force
Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.
Don't Answer the Phone!
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
My Soul to Take
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.
Scum of the Earth
Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul goes back to the car for some cigarettes he's not given a chance to ponder the carcinogenic ramifications as an axe blade makes the point moot. Panic stricken, Helen runs into the woods, only to find Odie Pickett as her only savior. He takes her back to his place, where pregnant wife Emmy, thick-as-a-brick son Bo, and available-since-she-was-twelve daughter Sarah, do their best to give her a "family" welcome. While Helen's immediate danger is somewhat delayed, her newfound shelter begins showing some signs of danger as well.
The Sleeper
It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows. As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the stalker studies the girls. One by one he finds the girls at their most vulnerable and murders them. The police hunt for the missing girls and their killer, but will they find them in time? Or will the girls be forced to fight for their lives..
A Stranger is Watching
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2 - Mask of Sanity
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
Edge of the Axe
An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.
Burial Ground Massacre
A group of college students spend a night at an old, eerie manor, only to realize that a terrifying stalker is watching their every move as he begins plans to repossess an ancient Native American artifact located inside.
The Last Showing
A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
Bloody Summer Camp
In 1986, counsellors at Camp Trustfall are preparing for the new summer. It's all fun and games until one of the new counsellors goes missing. Now, an evil lurks in the darkness. Is it the camp legend come to life or does someone else have an axe to grind?​
Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains
A bumbling young film crew, shooting a low-budget horror movie in an abandoned orphanage, discovers that a family of sadistic killers has rewritten their script.
Late Checkout
The small town of "Banner Elk" has fallen victim to a serial killer dubbed, "The Banner Elk Butcher," who makes art out of his victims in a brutal fashion. A group of friends are about to discover just how brutal his art can be.
American Hunt
A group of friends is torn apart when they become part of two human hunter's sick game. The men give them ten minutes to hide, and then the real hunt begins.
Kill Game
In Grace Arbor the answers are never clear. Who is underneath the mask? This is the story of a group of high school kids - all popular, good looking, "most likely to succeed" types - who amuse themselves by pulling pranks on unsuspecting students and teachers. At their core lies a cruelty and shallowness which comes with the territory of privilege. One night, a prank goes horribly wrong, a teenager is killed, and the gang covers it up as a drowning accident but five years later, their lives are turned upside down when a local is killed by a serial killer wearing a haunting Marilyn Monroe mask. Soon, the gang are killed one by one in manners mirroring the pranks they pulled in high school. Is it revenge? Is it karma?
Axegrinder
A 20-something camping trip goes horribly wrong when a Maniac Serial Killer (Jed Rowen) and a Psycho Homeless Guy (William Alva) invite themselves. Beautiful Girls. Hot Guys. Lots of Blood.
Comedown
Six friends, who've known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.
Massacre Academy
College athlete Kris McNeil, one of the only survivors of a series of murders committed two years prior at the hands of a masked slasher known as Carnie the Killer Clown. As the two year anniversary approaches, a new murder spree begins.
Axegrinder 5: Blood Vengeance
The lone survivor of Freddy Palmer's last massacre is blamed for the killings and institutionalized. She soon escapes and after hiding out with an all-female punk rock band, the women team up to hunt down Palmer in his forest killing grounds.
Serial Killer Massacre
Ted is a depraved serial killer...until he meets Leah. Then he becomes a real monster. Together the two of them go on a bloody, murder-happy rampage of unparalleled brutality, stalking then slaughtering their victims with a bone-chilling psychotic intensity!
Bloody Christmas
In a small town Police are in search for a child murderer. Meanwhile Rich Tague a has been 80's action movie star, is attempting to figure out the meaning of Christmas as he plays Santa on a Public Access T.V show. He fantasizes about murdering the people that do him wrong. Will he have the strength to not be on his own naughty list?
Slasher House
When RED awakens in a prison cell within an old abandoned Madhouse, she has no idea how she got there and why she has been placed there. As her cell door opens she soon discovers that she is not alone. Trapped with the worlds most notorious serial killers she finds herself caught in a deadly game with no escape as one by one the other 'inmates' are released to stalk her as their own prey. RED must now battle impossible enemies as she tries to find her freedom and soon realizes that there is a bigger plan for all this than she first realized. Will this 'Final' girl have what it takes? Or will she see the last of her days in the endless corridors of SLASHER HOUSE!
The Carpenter: Part 1 - And So They Die
The Carpenter tells the tale of a writer, a group of high school kids and a killer. The Kids party, the writer writes and the killer becomes legend.
Spiker
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
The Night Before Easter
A group of friends are stalked in a storage facility the night before Easter by an axe wielding lunatic in an Easter Bunny costume.
Doll Murder Spree
A group of college students join their teacher for a weekend of filming for extra credit. Documenting the local Hell House that's haunted by the family who were murdered there. Little do they know they would be trying to survive the night.
Night of the Clown
A group of college students go out into the woods for a Halloween party, only to be killed one by one, by a clown who was burned alive 30 years ago by an angry mob.
Furry Nights
When a group of teenagers venture into the woods, they stumble upon a group of Furries. Accidentally mistaking one for a real animal leads to a tragic accident. The Furries, led by the brutal Mr. Fox, launch an all-out assault on the youths. Can the teens survive the revenge of the Furries?!?
President's Day
A high school election turns deadly when a homicidal maniac dressed like Abe Lincoln starts killing off candidates.
Eden Lodge
A young couple arrive at a retreat in the English countryside in the hope of saving their failing marriage. But when the people around them start to be picked off by a vicious killer, the weekend becomes a matter of saving their lives.
Writer Blake Sinclair finds herself in a fight for her life against a bloodthirsty maniac who has been leaving multiple victims in his wake as he returns to the mountain town of Northdale.
Why?
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Why? Starring Allison McAtee, Chris Browning, Michael Krause, Shelby Janes, and more. If you liked Why? then you may also like: Vacancy, Just Before Dawn, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Carver and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Vacancy
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.