Movies like Lord of Illusions
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style:
scary, neo noir, dark, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, homoerotic, psychological, bloody ...
Plot:
private detective, magic, investigation, supernatural, faked death, occult, violence, desert, fanatic, cult, demon, magician, telekinesis, murder, good versus evil, mind game, resurrection, religions or cults, torture, tough guy, villain, black magic, massacre, insanity, demonic possession ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1982, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, new york, mojave desert, usa, california
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Most similar movies to Lord of Illusions
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and weird films with plots about death, supernatural, blood, murder, suspense, danger and macabre mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Lord of Illusions: Hellraiser (1987), Angel Heart (1987), The Believers (1987), The Ninth Gate (1999), In the Mouth of Madness (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, ...
Style:
scary, gothic, slasher, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, demon, torture, body horror, monster, supernatural, surrealism, violence, murder, vengeance, suspense, occult ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
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63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, sexy, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
investigation, devil, voodoo, twists and turns, private detective, satan, missing person, amnesia, incest, supernatural, suspense, sex with father ...
Time:
50s, year 1955, 20th century, year 1918, year 1943 ...
Place:
new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cult, ritual, supernatural, voodoo, child in peril, religion, murder, macabre, investigation, brutality, torture, ritual murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Style:
gothic, dark, satanic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
occult, supernatural, devil, investigation, collector, obsession, secret society, chase, curses spells and rituals, murder, satanism, artifact ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, paris france, france, spain, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style:
psychological, gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
insanity, investigation, hallucination, suspense, monster, paranoia, supernatural, small town, disappearance, mental illness, writers, fear ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, new hampshire, europe, england, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Conjuring similar movies
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit. A Warlock is taken captive in Boston, Massachusetts in 1691 by a witch-hunter Giles Redferne. He is sentenced to death for his activities, including the ...
Style:
dark fantasy, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, warlock, witch, supernatural, good versus evil, magic, wizards and magicians, wizards, curse, supernatural ability, murder, chase ...
Time:
80s, future, 17th century
Place:
los angeles, boston, massachusetts, usa, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, stylized, serious, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural ability, psychic, able to see the dead, seeing dead people, supernatural, husband wife relationship, a vision, good versus evil, suspense, transformation, evil force ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. ...
Style:
atmospheric, slasher, satanic, serious, scary ...
Plot:
witchcraft, occult, incestuous sex, devil, deal with the devil, satanist, supernatural, cult, black magic, suspense, sex crime, switching bodies ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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94K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, ghost, supernatural, monster, belief, macabre, cult, investigation, urban decay, revenge, bee ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, scary, slasher, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, photographer, psychopath, violent, twists and turns, violence, butcher, obsession, subway, torture, crazy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Evil Dead related movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
Style:
slasher, gothic, scary, splatter, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, supernatural, monster, hell, torture, maze, mental institution, violent, doctor, puzzle, violence, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, england, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza ...
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot:
supernatural, demonic possession, curses spells and rituals, priest, supernatural horror, exorcism, suspense, catholic, police investigation, demon, bible, religions or cults ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
new york, iraq, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Style:
scary, dark fantasy, gothic, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, monster, murder, afterlife, escape, heroic mission, obsessive quest, social misfits, psychiatrist, creature, supernatural, motel ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot:
supernatural, writers, murder, twins, blackmail, life philosophy, investigation, supernatural ability, lookalikes, alter ego, suspense, zombie ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, ouija board, evil spirit, medium, witch, psychic, ghost child, obsession, possession, magic, night ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, supernatural, alternate reality, serial killer, monster, hospital, demon, suspense, murder, writers, death, nightmare comes true ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
ohio, los angeles, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
monster, supernatural, curse, demon, village, family relations, legend, loss of son, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, small town ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
Style:
serious, dark, dark fantasy, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
devil, afterlife, angel, supernatural, prophecy, good versus evil, suspense, god, religion, christianity, vicious, religions or cults ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, fear, murder, supernatural horror, investigation, evil force, writer's life, paranormal activity, children ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, year 1966, year 1979, year 1998 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Italy, Pakistan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
devil, supernatural, exorcism, demonic possession, suspense, demon, good versus evil, priest, religion, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1949
Place:
africa, kenya, egypt, cairo egypt, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe similar movies
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, serial killer, fear, psychopath, plot twist, mind game, macabre, violent, suspense, survival horror, trapped, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely ...
Style:
psychological, scary, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, religions or cults, suspense, supernatural, twists and turns, catholic church, religion, uncover truth, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, sin, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vatican, rome italy, europe, paris france, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher. Her father was killed by the Candyman, and brother wrongly accused of the murders.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, atmospheric, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, ghost, murder, violence, killer, urban legend, vengeance, monster, curse, runaway, sexualized violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
115K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, frightening, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, evil spirit, survival, mental institution, murder, haunted by the past, isolation, serial murder, confined, rescue ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Films like The Ninth Gate
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, paranormal activity, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, suspense, serial killer, boy, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of killing. Alex follows the crow into the police department's evidence room, where he discovers that Lauren was killed by a group ...
Style:
stylized, harsh, exciting, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, afterlife, revenge, supernatural, vengeance, electric chair, tragic hero, murder, suspense, death, good versus evil, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, twist ending, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, psychic, paranoia, hypnosis, murder, clairvoyance, suspense, supernatural horror, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts.
Style:
scary, slasher, campy, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
evil doll, supernatural, serial killer, murder, monster, goth, homicidal maniac, road trip, wedding, transformation, doll, good versus evil ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
234K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style:
scary, dark, surreal, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, monster, demon, survival, insanity, macabre, torture, mysterious place, supernatural horror, ghost, evil, ghost town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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