Movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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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 in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement", realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense, depressing, psychotronic, psychedelic, slasher ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, female nudity, suspense, body swapping, supernatural, apocalypse, macabre, monster, distopia, evil wins, end of the world, investigation, doppelganger, alien encounter, disaster, body horror, paranoia, twists and turns, parasite, alien possession, post apocalypse, survival, invasion, space ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Most similar movies to Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, suspenseful, scary and cult film films with plots about suspense, catastrophe, danger, dialogue, monster, supernatural and violence mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Puppet Masters (1994), The Faculty (1998), Body Snatchers (1993), The Thing (1982), The Mist (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style:
scary, futuristic, visually appealing, allegory, thought provoking ...
Plot:
alien, evil alien, alien contact, alien invasion, mind control, space and aliens, monster, deadly creature, suspense, brutality, justice, space ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa, washington d.c.
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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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100%
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
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82%
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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
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83%
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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 ⇓
100%
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The Thing similar movies
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, 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
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100%
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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:
scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, transformation, supernatural, monster, surrealism, murder, macabre, suspense, experiment gone awry, mental illness, killer child, cult ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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100%
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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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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 ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, future dystopia, alien, bio weapon, plague, suspense, desert ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1992, 90s, near future
Place:
california, los angeles
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100%
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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, atmospheric, harsh, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, zombie, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, twists and turns, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa
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67%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the ...
Style:
scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
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Plot:
blindness, post apocalypse, monster, apocalypse, space and aliens, suspense, mutant, end of the world, distopia, survival, humanity, save the world ...
Time:
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Place:
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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, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, usa
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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:
psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
drugs, science, hallucination, experiment gone awry, surrealism, obsession, suspense, transformation, isolation, macabre, university, psychology ...
Time:
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Place:
harvard university, new york, africa, california, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, bad ending ...
Plot:
alien, ufo, alien abduction, alien contact, alien encounter, space and aliens, space, extraterrestrial, working class, investigation, murder, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
arizona, usa
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, suspense, end of the world, post apocalypse, epidemic, blindness, fear, creature, survival horror, suicide, characters murdered one by one, parents and children ...
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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:
scary, suspenseful, sexy, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
body horror, mad scientist, supernatural, transformation, macabre, monster, experiment, zombie, laboratory, another dimension, mutant, murder ...
Time:
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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 ...
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bad ending, futuristic, twist ending, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
future, 22nd century
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50%
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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:
scary, sexy, disturbing, sexual, rough ...
Plot:
parasite, body horror, zombie, sex maniac, exploitation, mad scientist, infected, sexuality, rape, violence, insanity, sexually transmitted disease ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Place:
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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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
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35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style:
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Plot:
supernatural, dark hero, serial killer, suspense, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, twists and turns, destiny, psychology, investigation, a vision ...
Time:
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Place:
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35%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, suspense, zombie, monster, macabre, ghost, murder, evil, videotaping, violence, alien abduction ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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35%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, surprise ending, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york state
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
alien, supernatural, alien abduction, parents and children, paranormal activity, disorder, child abduction, family in danger, evil alien, husband wife relationship, bird, abduction ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, supernatural, suspense, vengeance, government agency, chase, family relations, rescue, visceral, paranoia, parents and children, secret government organization ...
Time:
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50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, rough ...
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Plot:
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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:
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Time:
future, near future
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34%
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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:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
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34%
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