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The Howling (1981)
44K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Style:
scary, gothic, cult classic, creepy, sexy, suspenseful, perverse, slasher, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, transformation, psychiatrist, macabre, shapeshifting, creature feature, group therapy, outdoor sex, supernatural, murder, lost in the woods, interview, lycanthropy, man beast, monster, female werewolf, commune, full moon, shapeshifter, television, metamorphosis, campfire story, adultery, dog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and serious films with plots about danger, supernatural, gory, monster, deadly, murder and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Howling: Silver Bullet (1985), Darkwolf (2003), Two Evil Eyes (1990), Fright Night (1985), Sleepwalkers (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, classic horror, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, small town, female werewolf, shapeshifter, supernatural, monster, woods, female protagonist, adultery, nun, husband wife relationship, hallucination ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
werewolf, beast, stephen king, transformation, escapades, supernatural, shapeshifter, monster, danger, social relations, murder, paraplegic ...
Time:
80s, year 1976, 70s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A hip, very erotic twist on the werewolf thriller, this atmospheric horror film adds a a wickedly sexy appetite to the bloodthirsty cravings of its monster. A vicious werewolf stalks the streets of Los Angeles. Between killings, its desperate goal ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, talky, suspense ...
Plot:
werewolf, lovers on the run, female werewolf, police detective, stalking, lesbianism, investigation, supernatural, dangerous animal, rivalry, danger, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her ...
Style:
anthology, gothic, creepy, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
blood, zombie, spirit, macabre, greed, ghost, murder, older woman younger man relationship, female criminal, inquisition, supernatural, gory ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 90s
Place:
america, pittsburgh, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, horror comedy, dark comedy, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, supernatural horror, supernatural, monster, transformation, bloodsucker, vampire hunter, teenager, teenage protagonist, dracula, werewolf ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
Style:
sexy, creepy, slasher, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
incest, sex scene, cat, incestuous relationship, mother son incest, stephen king, transformation, incestuous sex, supernatural, violence, vampire, death ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
indiana, usa, california, ohio, egypt
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, gothic, horror comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
werewolf, monster, nightmare, transformation, supernatural, full moon, violence, monster as victim, gory, wolf, ghost, hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, northern england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
Style:
scary, creepy, gothic, suspense, satanic ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, devil, secret society, model, occult, investigation, supernatural horror, murder, hell, demon ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, italy, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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687K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style:
scary, suspense, spooky, horrifying, epic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
killer clown, clown, supernatural horror, coming of age, fear, small town, monster, evil clown, stephen king, villain, missing person, murderer ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, year 1988, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe.
Style:
cult classic, scary, brutal, funny, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, full moon, castle, violence, lovers on the run, female nudity, curse, female werewolf, supernatural, bare breasts, legend, funeral ...
Time:
80s
Place:
transylvania, los angeles, europe, romania
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the ...
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
werewolf, dog, transformation, full moon, deadly creature, boy, sex scene, single mother, child in peril, monster, murder of a nude woman, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nepal, washington state
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
Style:
scary, creepy, suspenseful, suspense, surreal ...
Plot:
werewolf, murder, monster, dangerous animal, full moon, wolf, legends and myths, transformation, death, native american, investigation, wolf pack ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, bronx new york city, new york state
Similarity:
100%
37K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
Style:
horror comedy, scary, teen horror, teen, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, violence, curse, bullying, female werewolf, male nudity, transformation, shapeshifter, gory, creature feature, monster ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mulholland drive
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, horrifying, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, transformation, mythical creature, wilderness, shapeshifter, sister sister relationship, dark heroine, eaten alive, sister, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
1810s, 19th century, regency period, georgian era, 1800s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
murder, supernatural, supernatural horror, nightmare, fear, dream, serial killer, gory, sleep deprivation, teenager, nightmare comes true, high school ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
ohio, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
346
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
While hiking in a remote forest, college student Zack disappears, leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom. Now a year later and plagued by nightmares, Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny in a last ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, small town, missing person, investigation, gory, danger, amateur detective, buddies, forest, backwoods, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, grindhouse, captivating ...
Plot:
werewolf, rape, rape and revenge, supernatural, female werewolf, transformation, murder, deadly creature, female nudity, fall in love, reincarnation, rivalry ...
Time:
70s, year 1968
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Style:
scary, humorous, surprise ending, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, australian outback, full moon, female werewolf, filmmaking, babies and infants, wolf, monster, nudity, lycanthropy, scientist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
Plot:
shapeshifter, folk horror, stepmother, forest, deceased father, alcoholism, young widow, creature feature, grief, stepmother stepson relationship, dead father, alcoholic ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
64K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.
Style:
gothic, creepy, suspense, psychological, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, dangerous attraction, wolf, workplace, transformation, police investigation, revenge, blood, publisher, shapeshifter, deadly creature ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
vermont, manhattan new york city, new york, persia, usa
Similarity:
100%
55K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style:
tense, natural horror, scary, serious, creepy ...
Plot:
dog, rabies, macabre, dangerous animal, stephen king, boy, child in peril, brutality, death, animal attack, monster, killer dog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the beginning of the movie you see a woman getting raped by a man-creature of some sort. The movie takes place years later when the child that was a result of that rape is on the rampage looking for a girl to rape to start the process all over ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, rough, sexual ...
Plot:
rape, interspecies sex, sexual abuse, monster, raped by monster, body horror, mutant, mutation, supernatural, violence spree, danger, youth ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
21%
111K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, medical horror, perverse, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, masked killer, masked villain, stalking, killer, masked man, psycho killer, voyeur ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
illinois, midwest, chicago, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, adult
Plot:
serial killer, blood, violence, masked man, gory, monster, two killers, nightmare on elm street, brutality, murder, serial teen killer, danger ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, year 1973, year 1957, 80s ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, midwest
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, cannibalism, chainsaw, masked killer, murder, homicidal maniac, psychopath, danger, macabre, killer, maniac ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, north america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, demonic, creepy, spooky ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunted, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1974
Place:
long island, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on actual accounts of werewolf sightings in Walworth County, Wisconsin, the film follows a local sheriff who is finally forced to accept that a string of horrifying deaths is linked to a predator which possesses DNA of both man and wolf.
Style:
serious, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
werewolf, cryptozoology, small town, danger, gory, bar fight, creature, false accusation, sheriff, murder, policewoman, lycanthropy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wisconsin, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, cult horror, creepy, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
prank, revenge, summer camp, stalking, serial killer, lake, survival, disfigurement, evil man, forest, fear, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york state, new york, canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only ...
Style:
slasher, scary, homoerotic, creepy, retro ...
Audience:
date night, teen fantasy, teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural horror, gay, gay subtext, homoeroticism, homoerotic friendship, nightmare on elm street, high school, serial killer, monster, revenge, gory, gay bar ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
usa, midwest, ohio
Similarity:
18%
137K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style:
scary, suspense, creepy, splatter, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
infected, insanity, chaos and mayhem, plague, deadly virus, epidemic, gory, survival, quarantine, survival horror, transformation, virus ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s
Place:
usa, iowa, kansas
Similarity:
18%
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