Movies like Dreamcatcher 2003
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
Style:
scary, psychological, dark, slasher, apocalyptic, ridiculous, inspirational, mind bending, bad ending, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, supernatural, first contact, virus, supernatural ability, forest, alien encounter, evil alien, apocalypse, transformation, cabin in the woods, suspense, monster, mind control, friends, buddies, snow, winter, life philosophy, good versus evil, infection, blizzard, body horror, foreknowledge ...
Time:
70s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
colorado, usa, boston, massachusetts, maine
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Most similar movies to Dreamcatcher
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, cult film and weird films with plots about suspense, dialogue, monster, first contact, brutality, blood and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dreamcatcher: The Thing (2011), The Mist (2007), The Bay (2012), Slither (2006), Misery (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, deadly creature, alien invasion, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, suspense, survival horror, death, space and aliens, survival ...
Time:
future, year 1982, 80s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
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100%
318K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
atmospheric, twist ending, psychological, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, apocalypse, suspense, religious fanatic, fear, creature, small town, macabre, spider, twists and turns, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infection, parasite, found footage, monster, disaster, suspense, plague, virus, apocalypse, ecological disaster, infected, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
84K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style:
scary, entertaining, funny, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, monster, parasite, suspense, zombie, alien invasion, dark humor, zombie attack, mutant, small town, macabre, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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218K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, hostage, female psychopath, isolation, obsessed fan, torture, rage ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to I Am Legend
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, abduction, alien abduction, revenge, mind control, creature, hysteria, supernatural, haunted by the past, friendship, race against time, infection ...
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50%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
suspense, alien, alien invasion, save the world, epidemic, psychiatrist, survival, transformation, virus, invasion, alien encounter, hysteria ...
Time:
future
Place:
washington d.c., usa, russia
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100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, serious, futuristic, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, apocalypse, survival, natural disaster, space travel, monster, save the world, introspection, heroic mission, supernatural, future dystopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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199K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, dark fantasy, enigmatic, gothic ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, psychic power, hotel, psychic, murder, doctor, suspense, native american, mind game, fear, magician ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, 2010s, year 1980, 80s ...
Place:
new jersey, iowa, ohio, florida, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
58K
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:
disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
scientist, telekinesis, suspense, violence, exploitation, cult, murder, body horror, mind reading, supernatural ability, investigation, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Thing
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
intense, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, distopia, supernatural, isolation, infected, end of the world, dog ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 2000s, year 2012, near future ...
Place:
new york, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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100%
127K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, splatter, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, suspense, youth, teenager, space and aliens, parasite, evil alien, teacher, alien encounter, high school, high school life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
ohio
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33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
alien, alien abduction, alien contact, psychiatrist, ufo, hypnosis, writers, halloween, supernatural, paranoia, macabre, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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38%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, chase, car chase, fbi, buddy cop, suspense, twists and turns, mind control, violence, revenge, monster, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style:
bad ending, futuristic, twist ending, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien, space travel, monster, space, alien life-form, robot, creature, human versus alien, scientist, extraterrestrial, alien creature, suspense ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like The Mist
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style:
scary, disturbing, rough, splatter, campy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, suspense, forest, infected, death, disease, plague, fear, survival, paranoia, illness, apocalypse ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
211K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, disaster, catastrophe, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, graphic violence, suspense, plague ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, west virginia, new jersey ...
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50%
432K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, survival, isolation, fear, paranoia, creature, supernatural, snow, suspense, scientist, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
antarctica, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
237K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, scary, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
quarantine, zombie, virus, found footage, survival, infection, graphic violence, suspense, supernatural, monster, macabre, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Movies similar to Cloverfield
58K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style:
slasher, scary, sexy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space, serial killer, suspense, murder, monster, masked killer, psychopath, survival, space travel, violent, scientist, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature feature, suspense, monster, dog, laboratory, genetic mutation, creature, experiment gone awry, survival, genetic engineering, mad scientist, on the run ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, suspenseful, intense, dark, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mutant, monster, suspense, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, death, creature, secrets, transformation, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Grace Rhodes, who is studying to be a doctor, returns to her hometown as a strange illness is afflicting the local children. The symptoms include a high fever and spasms, but even weirder is what happens the next day: All those with the illness ...
Style:
slasher, scary, unusual plot structure, pastoral, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer child, teenager, murder, supernatural, chase, preacher, dreams, suspense, violence, destiny, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
56K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style:
scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
astronaut, suspense, found footage, space, alien encounter, nasa, space travel, expedition, moon landing, twists and turns, alien, heroic mission ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, future, year 1969, year 2011 ...
Place:
antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies similar to Event Horizon
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Style:
scary, slasher, surreal, bad ending, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, killer fish, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, shark, scuba diving, animals, sea, island, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the ...
Style:
scary, exciting, splatter, breathtaking, allegory ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, monster, deadly creature, save the world, predator, survival, apocalypse, evil alien, first contact, space, superhero, cloning ...
Time:
future, jurassic, year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, egypt, nepal, nebraska, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her. In an effort to save ...
Style:
sexy, splatter, surprise ending, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
robot, murder, artificial intelligence, teenager, androids and robots, mad scientist, technology, zombie, halloween, child abuse, cyborgs, best friends ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her. But Rachel has something else that ...
Style:
slasher, scary, splatter, erotic, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, bullying, telekinesis, revenge, supernatural, american football, female nudity, loss of virginity, teenager, suicide, fire, prom ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
london, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, space horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, evil alien, alien, soldier, toxic, research, zombie, emotionless, invasion, teenage life, military, paranoia ...
Time:
90s, 50s
Place:
alabama, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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