Best movies like Scissors
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies like Scissors? Share your knowledge to direct others discover tv shows and movies you've already seen that might suit them too. Boost the cohort of people recommending videos to one another. We value your contribution!
Plot Summary:
After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of the brothers has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst tries to help her over the attack, but when she is invited to a mysterious apartment things get worse and worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
Best tv shows and movies like Scissors (1991):
Similar in 78%
Doppelganger: The Evil Within (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves from NYC to LA after a murder, in which she is implicated. She is followed by what is apparently her evil alter- ego. She moves into a room for rent by a writer, and he begins having an affair with her, but after some strange things happen, he's not so sure if the affair is with her or her doppelganger.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, cult classic, psychological, independent film, psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, scary
Similar in 85%
Stalked (1994)
Plot Summary:
Clean-cut, handsome looking psychiatric patient Daryl Gleeson finds himself hopelessly falling in love with restaurant owner Brooke Daniels, after having instinctively rescued her little son Mikey from a traffic accident. When she doesn't return his love he snaps and begins to stalk her, eliminating all who stand in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Bikini Island (1991)
Plot Summary:
"Swimwear Illustrated" is approaching its fifteenth anniversary issue. From a group of eager and beautiful young women, five are chosen for a photo shoot on an island off the California coast. One of the five will be the cover girl, and she'll get an extra $100,000. On the island, the group stays at an isolated inn, staffed by the odd Frab. There's him, the five models, and four magazine staff: photographer, make-up man, ambitious assistant Anesa, and Jack Denton, the playboy in charge of production. One by one, models and staff disappear.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, sexy, sexual, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, scary, serious, realistic
Similar in 90%
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jacki, a scientist involved in genetic research, meets Tom, a young modern dancer who is suffering from a degenerative nerve disease. Jacki experiments with using genetic material taken from a cat to cure him, but the cure has side effects, and Tom begins to take on feline characteristics that may turn him into a monster. The situation is further complicated by Tom's attachment to Imogen--and Jacki's growing jealousy as she fears the loss of her patient and lover.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, scary, sexual, surprise ending, sexy
Similar in 80%
The Attic (2007)
Plot Summary:
Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 87%
The Contract (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her problems and he says he can solve them if she just signs a paper. The next day, her boss has been brutally murdered. Soon, Anna realizes everybody she knows is in danger, including her family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film, scary, realistic
Similar in 88%
Raising Cain (1992)
Plot Summary:
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, detective, scary, tense, clever, psychotronic, slasher
Similar in 75%
Boogeyman 3 (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the evil force grows stronger and her friends begin to pay the price. Now she must stop this ultimate evil before the entire campus falls prey.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, demonic, perverse
Similar in 79%
Breaking at the Edge (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant woman fears for her unborn child's life if she doesn't avenge a supernatural entity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, hispanic
Similar in 79%
Across the Hall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Convinced that his fiancee is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, scary, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, dark
Similar in 82%
Recovery (2016)
Plot Summary:
The night before their high school graduation, Jessie and her friends are guided by a 'Find My iPhone' app to recover her lost device from a house whose demented tenants are hell bent on making her a flesh and blood member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, teen horror
Similar in 79%
Summoned (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary
Similar in 86%
Luster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scary, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 89%
Buried Alive (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, slasher, independent film, slasher horror, campy
Similar in 89%
The Neighbor (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
Teacher's Pet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and dies out of fear of Debbie and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students and faculty who get in the way with her obsession with her former high school teacher Sam Deckner now teaching at the college.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, sexual, surprise ending
Similar in 87%
The Monitor (2011)
Plot Summary:
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, social, grindhouse, cult horror
Similar in 86%
Dark Mirror (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense, mind bending
Similar in 77%
Deadly Blessing (1981)
Plot Summary:
After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic, psychological thriller, gothic, bloody
Similar in 79%
Visible Scars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. There she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, spooky, scary, rough, realistic, independent film
Similar in 86%
The Presence (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surreal, spooky, independent film
Similar in 78%
Madhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, suspense, dark, psychological horror
Similar in 86%
Lost Signal (2006)
Plot Summary:
New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting with Crystal Meth. Unbeknown to them, town bad boy Randy Martin slips LSD in their drinks, setting into motion a night of life altering events which will leave one dead and the other forever scarred. The young couple leave the party and quickly begin to realize that they are not alone, or so they think. After a car accident the two run into the woods to escape their stalker, with no protection from the elements. Attempts to call for help are futile when they realize that their cell phone signal is lost. Alone in the woods with the delusions of being chased the couple slowly begin to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, serious, scary, dark, slasher, psychological
Similar in 80%
Knife Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, slasher, spooky, scary, realistic
Similar in 80%
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror, surprise ending, horror comedy
Similar in 89%
Sanitarium (2013)
Plot Summary:
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, anthology, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, grindhouse
Similar in 78%
Black Rock (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mumblecore, psychological, suspense, grindhouse, teen
Similar in 81%
Sliver (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, sensual, psychosexual thriller, serious, exciting, anamorphic
Similar in 89%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 outsmart her psychopathic tormentor. But Herman has experience on his side: He's entrapped and tortured other women before, playing sick and twisted mind games with his frightened victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, awful
Similar in 83%
Long Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic