Movies like Book of Lore

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   What Happens Next Will Scare You

   Same director

   2020 · 72 min · Comedy · Horror

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   Staying late in their office on a Friday night, a motley crew of click-bait article authors are tasked with finding the top thirteen scariest online videos in preparation for a Halloween roll-out. When an early entry promises to curse whoever watches the cryptic link, our snarky writers must distinguish fact from fiction before a crescendo of paranormal disturbances lead to real-life murders.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Id Proxy

   Strong story similarity

   2010 · 80 min · Horror

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   A group of people go camping in the woods for the weekend only to become terrorized and hunted by a man who has snapped into a psychotic rage.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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   Glenville: Hell's Homecoming

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 75 min · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery · Thriller

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   An ex-mental patient seeks asylum from the awful nightmares he has been having about a series of massacres in a small town five years earlier. Two private detectives are on his trail, especially after his roommate goes missing. A mysterious phone call & a cloaked figure will unearth a dark secret too horrifying to even fathom...

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared genre DNA
   • a closely matched era

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   Heads or Tails

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 84 min · Drama · Horror · Mystery · Thriller

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   Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared genre DNA
   • a closely matched era

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   The Hills Run Red

   Strong story similarity

   2009 · 81 min · Horror · Thriller

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   A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: urban legend
   • a closely matched era

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   Stranger Than Fiction

   Strong story similarity

   2000 · 96 min · Comedy · Thriller

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   Nothing is as it seems when four friends agree to cover up a killing. When they begin to doubt who among them is telling the truth, they find that life can be stranger than fiction.

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   • strong story and style similarity

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   Midnight Movie

   Strong story similarity

   2008 · 82 min · Fantasy · Horror · Thriller

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   At a seedy theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film, unaware that the director has something more in store for them.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: urban legend
   • a closely matched era

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   Freaks of Nature

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 92 min · Comedy · Horror · Science Fiction

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   In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Identity

   Strong story similarity

   2003 · 90 min · Mystery · Thriller

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   Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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    Road to Nowhere

    Strong story similarity

    2010 · 121 min · Mystery · Other · Thriller

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    A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era

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