Movies like The Kindred 1987
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The Kindred (1987)
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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 some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Style:
scary, dark, suspense, suspenseful, intense, exciting, retro, psychotronic, mystic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creature, mutant, secrets, laboratory, genetics, mad scientist, murder, death, transformation, survival, experiment gone awry, investigation, danger, body horror, creature feature, gory, scientist, supernatural horror, evil child, babies and infants, death of mother, exploitation, baby born, giant octopus, experiment ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
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Most similar movies to The Kindred
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about danger, monster, creature, creature feature, deadly, gory and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Kindred: The Boogens (1981), Razortooth (2007), Bottom Feeder (2007), Bats (1999), Phantoms (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
creature, creature feature, deadly creature, gory, danger, social relations, escapades, mine, female nudity, monster, winter, snow ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The concept is based on a true story concerning an exotic species of eels that are released in the southeast from Asia. They breathe air and can survive on land.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Plot:
eel, killer animal, dangerous animal, mad scientist, survival, creature feature, danger, experiment gone awry, wilderness, creature, monster, shark ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, everglades
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
mutant, tunnel, monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, danger, chaos, supernatural, creature, murder, scientist, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Style:
scary, intense, rough, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
bat, disaster, animal attack, mad scientist, small town, supernatural, creature feature, monster, dangerous animal, mutation, danger, save the day ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. His puppets become murderous little demons and escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics tune into the existence of ...
Style:
demonic, suspense, scary, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, evil doll, murder, violence, supernatural, doll, deadly creature, killer doll, female nudity, time machine, transformation, puppet master ...
Time:
80s, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
new york, yale university, pacific ocean, california
Similarity:
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:
cult classic, grindhouse, sexy, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
exploitation, rape, raped by monster, sea creature, sex, fisherman, female nudity, fishing village, humanoid, impregnation, creature feature, childbirth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Style:
christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
alien creature, evil alien, hostage, alien, store, battles, investigation, captivity, isolation, race against time, small town, alien encounter ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
Style:
classic horror, cult horror, surprise ending, brutal, independent film ...
Plot:
monster, alien, alien invasion, alien abduction, creature feature, body horror, kaiju, giant monster, laboratory, creature, alien monster, natural disaster ...
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, disgusting, slasher ...
Plot:
ex soldier, lake, winter, creature, siblings, brother brother relationship, snow, family in danger, deathtrap, danger, isolation, brutality ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
deadly virus, virus, disaster, medical, laboratory, science, race against time, plague, alien, pandemic, epidemic, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
38K
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:
creepy, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, mental illness, killer child, murder, creepy child, childhood trauma, child abuse, psychiatrist, transformation, strangulation, supernatural, mutant ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style:
scary, medical horror, suspenseful, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, genetics, mutant, island, survival, chaos and mayhem, experiment gone awry, mutation, dangerous animal, stranded, brutality, experiment ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, indonesia, pacific ocean
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
giant spider, creature feature, desert, animal attack, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, space and aliens, danger, journalism, monster, killer animal, news reporter ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
farm, infection, creature feature, quarantine, experiment gone awry, creature, monster, escapades, race against time, danger, isolation, genetic engineering ...
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cockroach, insect, mutant, island, killer animal, experiment, creature, scientist, monster, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
medical horror, suspense, scary, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, investigation, danger, mind game, murder, experiment gone awry, monster, body horror ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
cuba, florida
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
super soldier, laboratory, creature, mutant, mad scientist, superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, monster, battles, soldier, danger, terrorism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
experiment gone awry, survival, dangerous animal, danger, supernatural, gory, creature feature, animal, scared, killer animal, psychiatric ward, creature ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia, pittsburgh
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
Plot:
survival, supernatural, deadly creature, rivalry, escapades, crime gone awry, danger, betrayal, gory, alien, monster, native ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, infection, rat, dangerous animal, survival, supernatural, plague, eaten alive, virus, epidemic, danger, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.
Style:
scary, suspense, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creature, human animal relationship, curse, urban legend, chaos, childhood, danger, deadly creature, macabre, kids and family, supernatural, creature feature ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The monster child returns - but now there are three!
Style:
medical horror, gothic horror, suspense, cult horror, classic horror ...
Plot:
monster, body horror, baby, babies and infants, evil child, creepy child, killer child, creature feature, maternity ward, mutant, bad kids, baby born ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, monster, isolation, space and aliens, rescue, plague, battles, deadly creature, danger, pregnancy, life is a bitch, creature ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, serious, scary, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, mutant, cocoon, female scientist, monster attack, experiment gone awry, genetic engineering, creature feature, monster, laboratory, creature, babe scientist ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
experiment gone awry, killer animal, mad scientist, danger, survival, bio weapon, deadly creature, investigation, escapades, graphic violence, violent content, insect ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
Similarity:
22%
445
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While searching for a "cure all" serum, Dr. Edward Kanopolus, "Dr. K", is being pressured for results by the pharmaceutical company funding the project. With time running out, tragedy and desperation drive him to make decisions ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
mutant, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, chaos, danger, laboratory, supernatural, doctors and patients, violence, disorder, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
631
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community. It's up to the easygoing Sheriff Parker, eager game warden Jim, ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
werewolf, monster, small town, danger, deadly creature, disorder, experiment gone awry, killer animal, laboratory, scientist, violence, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant snake, amazon river, snake, survival, killer animal, creature, betrayal, monster, danger, escapades, obsessive quest, eaten alive ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, romania
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style:
suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
experiment gone awry, deadly creature, evil alien, space and aliens, rivalry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, gory, race against time, mad scientist, danger ...
Similarity:
22%
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