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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Six actors go to graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
Style: scary, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, horror comedy, disturbing, black and white, mockbuster, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot: zombie, hippie, cemetery, apocalypse, undead, curse, exploitation, occult, porn, epidemic, macabre, underground, freak, infected, 666, grave, spell, female psychopath, doom, religions or cults, ghost, supernatural, good versus evil, violence, satanism ...
Time: year 1972, 70s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, humorous and semi serious films with plots about deadly, supernatural, zombie, danger, gory, gore and escapades mostly in Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things: Ghoulies (1984), The Dead Hate the Living! (2000), Return of the Living Dead II (1988), House of the Damned (1996), Spookies (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ghoulies (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
Style: scary, humorous, sexy, light, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, witch, demon, zombie, creature, little creatures, justice, storytelling, adaptation, ghost, danger, battles ...
Time: 80s
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The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, afterlife, mad scientist, chaos, deadly creature, danger, gory, disorder, escapades, supernatural, experiment gone awry, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
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Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Style: funny, horror comedy, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, dark humor, undead, supernatural, apocalypse, toxic waste, infected, plague, gory, youth, night of the living dead, epidemic ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
House of the Damned (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A woman uses witchcraft to try to steal her daughter's youth.
Style: black and white, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: zombie, ghost, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, rivalry, danger, supernatural ability, gays and lesbians, mentally unstable, race against time, satire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Spookies (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, slasher, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, occult, supernatural, ouija, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, black magic, murder, giant spider, vampire, danger, estate ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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50%
Redneck Zombies (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.
Style: scary, cult horror, disturbing, sexy, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: redneck, zombie, hillbilly, backwoods, gory, apocalypse, virus, pig killer, hicksploitation, villain, nightmare, infected ...
Time: 80s
Place: maryland, delaware
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49%
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Riding around on their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies, which have been accidentally let out of their secure cave, and those still alive in the town.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, horror comedy, independent film, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, motorcycle, apocalypse, zombie, small town, survival, mad scientist, supernatural, chase, gory, girl gang, supernatural being ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Evil Dead II (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed ...
Style: scary, splatter, dark comedy, slasher, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: gory, supernatural, evil dead, blood, dark humor, zombie, curses spells and rituals, undead, demon, haunted house, time travel, american horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century, medieval times, 90s ...
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Blood Diner (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
Style: black comedy, scary, slasher, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: butcher, cannibalism, goddess, serial killer, insanity, massacre, psychopath, cooking and food, ancient mystery, danger, reincarnation, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
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Monsturd (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
Style: semi serious, scary, suspenseful, humorous, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, monster, deadly creature, mad scientist, laboratory, gory, experiment gone awry, psychopath, mutant, supernatural, danger, toxic waste ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Andre the Butcher (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Andre the Butcher will make sure you pay for your sins.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, gory, isolation, supernatural, mind game, violence spree, danger, destiny, murder ...
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Choking Hazard (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When self-help guru Dr. Reinis (Jaroslav Dusek) led his students on a retreat to ponder the meaning of life, he had no intention of leading them all to their doom. But when gut-munching zombie woodsmen emerge, the group finds itself locked in mortal ...
Style: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, survival, supernatural, silly humor, danger, deadly creature, gory, isolation, wilderness, woods, hotel, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As a child Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. Now a young man he struggles with a pestering girlfriend, therapy sessions that resolve nothing, and night classes that barely hold his interest. After unleashing an ancient curse, ...
Style: scary, horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, camping, demon, monster, murder, disorder, good versus evil, vengeance, ghost, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
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Evil - In the Time of Heroes (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story begins on the end of the First "Kako" movie.The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and they not only need to take care of the zombies but other random Greek that have taken advantage of the chaos and ...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, hilarious ...
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, heroes, experiment gone awry, disorder, save the world, escapades, rivalry, chases and races, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, danger ...
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: not serious, semi serious, scary, humorous, psychotronic ...
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Last Rites of the Dead (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In an imagined reality where zombies coexist with ordinary mortal folk, the undead are considered second-class citizens. Angela finds this out the hard way when she's shot by her boyfriend and must learn to adjust to her new zombie lifestyle. ...
Style: not serious, humorous, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster ...
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Basket Case 2 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" ...
Style: disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 80s, 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Cemetery Man (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a ...
Style: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, undead, insanity, erotica, cemetery, male nudity, living dead, eroticism, corpse, impotence, prostitute, decapitation ...
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Zombieworld (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
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Style: apocalyptic, anthology, humorous, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, paranoia, struggle for survival, characters in danger, dystopian future, society, human existence, supernatural, danger, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Cadaver Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor's work. A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this ...
Style: christmas horror, semi serious, exciting, scary, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the interest of the local sheriff (Mark McLachlan), who holds Fuad's family reputation in ill favor. Fuad is soon, ...
Style: slasher, suspense, cult classic, bloody, queer horror ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Slaughter (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A turn of the century ritual to raise the feminine evil goes horribly awry and leaves a she demon dormant on the ceremonial grounds. Sixty years later a young couple moves into a house built on the ancient grounds and their daughter's murder ...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: gory, zombie, friendship, supernatural ability, danger, ghost, haunted house, mentally unstable, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, machete, human sacrifice ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Retardead (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mad scientist Dr. Stern is turning students into super-smart cannibalistic zombies, and the local cops are too busy chasing a sex fiend to stop the flesh-eating ghouls. Fortunately, Stern's nemesis, FBI agent Susan Hannigan, is on the case. As ...
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.
Style: grindhouse, classic horror, dark comedy, suspense, slasher ...
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Time: 60s
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Dark Rising (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A weekend camping trip turns into a frantic fight against the supernatural when an ancient demon and a fearsome female warrior bring their eternal battle into the present day. Jason Parks is trying to win back his ex-fiancee, Jasmine, by arranging a ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: afterlife, good versus evil, escapades, ghost, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, gory, best friend, wizards and magicians, thirtysomething life, gender, danger ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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The Granny (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives.
Style: sexy, independent film, semi serious, scary, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, thanksgiving, monster, woman with a gun, dead, sex, undead, good versus evil, female demon, inheritance, eternal youth, mansion ...
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43%
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style: scary, grindhouse, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: zombie, gory, suicide, macabre, zombie apocalypse, buried alive, violence, living dead, small town, apocalypse, monster, violent ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: new england, usa, georgia, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Parts of the Family (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough, parody ...
Plot: murder, deadly creature, survival, confined, supernatural, chaos, isolation, experiment gone awry, gory, danger, escapades, vengeance ...
Place: europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Aaah! Zombies!! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brain freeze has never been so bad once you’ve tasted Ale Cream, as four friends inadvertently eat some radioactive ice-cream, turning them into zombies. Only problem is they don’t see themselves as the undead, but as super soldiers.
Style: parody, suspense, humorous, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: zombie, infected, undead, friendship, multiple perspectives, supernatural, disorder, apocalypse, supernatural being, exodus, morals, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Cannibal Girls (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, sexy, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: cannibal, canuxploitation, cannibalism, murder, zombie, occult, 666, food, exploitation, paranormal, nudity, restaurant ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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