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The Brood (1979)
38K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style:
creepy, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, surreal, terrifying, suspense, psychological, perverse ...
Plot:
body horror, killer child, mental illness, murder, creepy child, childhood trauma, psychiatrist, child abuse, transformation, strangulation, supernatural, mutant, violent, surrealism, childbirth, psychotherapy, father daughter relationship, fear, girl, husband wife relationship, terminal illness, secret, child kidnapping, experiment gone awry, genetically altered ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Most similar movies to The Brood
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about danger, murder, supernatural, deadly, body horror, gory and violence mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Brood: Videodrome (1983), Rabid (1977), Shivers (1975), Phantasm (1979), eXistenZ (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, medical horror, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
body horror, vampire, hospital, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cannibalism, virus, infection, bare breasts, infected, canuxploitation, disaster, zombie ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, montreal, canada
Similarity:
100%
26K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Style:
sexual, disturbing, grindhouse, suspense, erotic ...
Plot:
exploitation, parasite, sex maniac, rape, sex, insanity, body horror, gory, zombie, evil wins, lust, puffy nipples ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style:
scary, cult classic, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, tall man, twists and turns, cemetery, funeral, small town, supernatural, mausoleum, hearse, murder, adaptation, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, 80s
Place:
usa, southern california, california, oregon
Similarity:
100%
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113K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, twists and turns, alternate reality, dystopia, cyberspace, bodyguard, parallel world, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1999, near future
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, frightening, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, dystopia, doppelganger, extraterrestrial, alien parasite, supernatural, parasite, evil wins, monster, alien possession, body horror ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 1950s, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
67K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot:
body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
106K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
genetic engineering, genetics, monster, creature, supernatural, experiment gone awry, danger, cloning, laboratory, imaginary, dna, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
america, usa
Similarity:
100%
222K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychic power, supernatural, investigation, vengeance, gory, supernatural ability, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, adoption, police station, cop ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creepy child, space and aliens, alien, genetics, small town, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, supernatural ability, mind game, alien invasion, danger, babies and infants ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
9K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide ...
Style:
surreal, grindhouse, spooky, slasher, classic horror ...
Plot:
alien abduction, nudity, alien, clown, birth, female nudity, body horror, ufo, exploitation, monster, alien invasion, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1982, 80s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
body horror, space and aliens, evil alien, astronaut, supernatural, escapades, space travel, artificial intelligence, battles, disorder, nasa, mad scientist ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, scary, psychotronic, retro ...
Plot:
pregnancy, impregnation, rape, alien, cave, murder, evil alien, woman in labor, characters killed one by one, space monster, pregnant from rape, trapped in space ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style:
lovecraft, scary, sexy, demonic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
mad scientist, body horror, monster, transformation, alternate dimension, mutant, insanity, parallel world, decapitation, cthulhu, gory, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with ...
Style:
scary, dark, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creature, mutant, secrets, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
115K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
surreal, psychological, scary, psychedelic, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, coma, mind game, investigation, race against time, sadomasochism, virtual reality, fbi, psychiatrist, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, black and white ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
evil child, creepy child, children, supernatural, church, killer child, supernatural ability, social misfits, prodigy, danger, moral dilemma, ufo ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Style:
tech noir, scary, cult classic, bloody, surprise ending ...
Plot:
teleportation, mad scientist, gory, monster, body horror, cocoon, creature feature, mutation, insect, creature, transformation, laboratory ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by ...
Style:
lovecraft, cult classic, medical horror, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
mad scientist, prison, zombie, afterlife, childhood trauma, undead, dark humor, insanity, laboratory, gory, experiment, convict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, creepy, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
monkey, revenge, murder, bare chested male, vengeance, macabre, dangerous animal, animal attack, possessiveness, nudity, experiment, rage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
"I have a gift for disaster," says John Morlar (Ricard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.
Style:
psychological, retro, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychic, disaster, psychic power, brain, supernatural power, mental disorder, investigation, psychopath, mind power, psychokinesis, psychiatrist, childhood memory ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland yard
Similarity:
100%
65K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Style:
cerebral, tense, surreal, scary, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female serial killer, body horror, serial killer, violence, psycho killer, party, car accident, cutting one's own hair, pretending to be someone else, childbirth, father son relationship, delusional man ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
19K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, conspiracy, government agency, vengeance, telekinesis, chase, secret government organization, family relations, rescue, visceral, government agent, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1977
Place:
chicago, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster ...
Style:
scary, medical horror, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
macabre, supernatural, creepy child, murder, serial killer, body horror, gory, isolation, investigation, deadly creature, family in danger, rescue ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, santa monica california, seattle
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job.
Style:
independent film, serious, slasher, scary, exciting ...
Plot:
psychic, psychic power, body horror, supernatural, serial killer, cop, occult, superhero, police officer, supernatural horror, profanity, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
evil child, zombie, plague, killer child, children, burned alive, toxic, deadly creature, rescue, danger, mutant, zombie attack ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, new england, massachusetts
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The monster child returns - but now there are three!
Style:
medical horror, gothic horror, suspense, cult horror, classic horror ...
Plot:
monster, body horror, baby, babies and infants, evil child, creepy child, killer child, creature feature, maternity ward, mutant, bad kids, baby born ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
19%
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