Movies like It's Alive
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It's Alive (1974)
8K
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 that kills the team in the delivery room and escapes through a skylight. Lieutenant Perkins comes to the hospital to investigate the murder and the press divulges the identity of the parents. Frank discovers a dark secret about Lenore and the baby.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough, bloody, psychological, tense, light, mind bending ...
Plot:
supernatural, murder, monster, serial killer, isolation, body horror, macabre, mutant, catastrophe, paranoia, investigation, deadly creature, family in danger, rescue, experiment gone awry, suspense, pregnancy, hospital, child killer, babies and infants, evil child, creepy child, bad kids, drugs, violence ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, seattle, santa monica california, seattle washington
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Most similar movies to It's Alive
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, cult film, weird and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, deadly, monster, violence, gory, suspense and macabre mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like It's Alive: The Thing (1982), Humanoids from the Deep (1980), It Lives Again (1978), C.H.U.D. (1984), The Brood (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Style:
scary, intense, suspenseful, slasher, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, rape, raped by monster, monster, sea monster, survival, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, animal attack, fisherman, creature feature ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The monster child returns - but now there are three!
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, body horror, babies and infants, killer child, baby, mutant, bad kids, pregnancy, evil child, psycho, creepy child, creature ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
13K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, mutant, police investigation, toxic, experiment gone awry, murder, survival, exploitation, creature feature, cult, violence, toxic waste ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Style:
scary, rough, disturbing, surprise ending, saga ...
Plot:
mutant, babies and infants, suspense, survival, rescue, isolation, mind game, investigation, experiment gone awry, murder, island, monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Movies similar to The Thing
32K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Style:
scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
police investigation, cult, murder, alien, occult, macabre, life & death, mysterious character, introspection, supernatural, psychopath, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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17K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style:
slasher, campy, satirical, absurd, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, addiction, monster, cult, transformation, advertising, conspiracy, discovery, campaign, rivalry, mutation, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, intense, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spider, death, creature feature, tarantula, monster, plague, amateur detective, chaos, dangerous animal, investigation, family in danger, animal attack ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, surreal, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, suspense, monster, video game, obsession, maniac, priest, virtual reality, multiple storylines, isolation, mind game ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, surreal, campy ...
Plot:
mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, cult, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, woman in danger, experiment gone awry, stripper ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
22K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, beach, supernatural, death, suspense, violence, murder, brutality, missing person, escapades, lone hero, sarcasm ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
20K
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:
vampire, rabies, body horror, zombie, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, infected, mad scientist, cannibalism, insanity, violence, hospital, suspense ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It's Alive is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, psychotronic ...
Plot:
monster, pregnancy, baby, mutant, supernatural, riddles and clues, woman in labor, disorder, breast feeding, youth, curses spells and rituals, violence ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, body horror, vengeance, criminal psychologist, mind game, surgery, supernatural, death row, amputation, medical ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
41K
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:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies similar to The Fly
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, atmospheric, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, torture, macabre, supernatural, violence, space, monster, afterlife, good versus evil, visceral, suspense, transformation ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 1780s, year 1996, 20th century ...
Place:
france, manhattan new york city, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
9K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, police investigation, kaiju, transformation, giant monster, amateur detective, deadly creature, violence spree, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, legend, master criminal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The puppets battle their most powerful enemy yet as they protect the new puppet master from the demon God that created the Secret of Life.
Style:
slasher, scary, campy, controversial, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, monster, evil doll, doll, supernatural, hotel, killer doll, secrets, brutality, serial killer, mentor, multiple storylines ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
53K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, melancholic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, mutant, monster, tunnel, entomologist, suspense, creature, experiment gone awry, disease, giant insect ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and ...
Style:
campy, semi serious, captivating, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
swamp, superhero, creature, monster, laboratory, rescue, good versus evil, superhuman powers, transformation, chase, villain, heroic mission ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, washington d.c., europe, usa, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
12K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, virtual reality, computer, macabre, teenager, video game, transformation, mentor, technology gone awry, experiment gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time:
80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly ...
Style:
scary, stylized, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher ...
Plot:
transformation, snake, body horror, laboratory, college student, mad scientist, mutation, father daughter relationship, experiment, insanity, python, cobra ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, not serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, zombie, monster, college, supernatural, macabre, parasite, teenager, cult, survival, alien invasion, creature feature ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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:
atmospheric, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, female nudity, suspense, body swapping, supernatural, apocalypse, macabre, distopia, monster, evil wins, end of the world ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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