Movies like What We Do in the Shadows 2014

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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
 7.6
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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Style: mockumentary, absurd, humorous, gothic, parody, offbeat, not serious, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, dark humor, werewolf, friendship, supernatural, goth, blood, immortality, social misfits, roommate, zombie, found footage, urban, buddies, death, satire, camp, humour, violence, monster, creature, beast, drinking, teenager, magical ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 1912, year 1997, year 1978, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new zealand, oceania, indiana
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out horror comedy, humorous, dark comedy and scary films with plots about supernatural, halloween, deadly, blood, satire, danger and dark humor mostly in Comedy, Horror and Fantasy genres. Some movies like What We Do in the Shadows: Death Becomes Her (1992), Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), The Lost Boys (1987), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), Dark Shadows (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of three vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Style: humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, light, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, vampire, blood, supernatural being, friends, nudity, supernatural power, fantasy world, city life, social relations, urban setting, lifestyle ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to ...
Style: satirical, dark comedy, gothic, black comedy, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: dark humor, immortality, love triangle, magic, obsession, supernatural, afterlife, body horror, death, fountain of youth, zombie, rejuvenation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 2020s
Place: california, persia, beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, UK, USA, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Style: humorous, funny, absurd, dark comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: death, dark humor, gory, vacation, student, nothing goes right, youth, group of friends, chainsaw, accidental killing, friends, camp ...
Time: year 2010, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: virginia, usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.2
 160K
The Lost Boys (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style: black comedy, scary, surprise ending, teen, gothic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, supernatural, single mother, goth, teenage boy, amusement park, motorcycle, vampire hunter, blood, fear, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When her great aunt dies famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town to Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house a witches cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream ...
Style: gothic, parody, spoof, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witchcraft, goth, inheritance, magic, hostess, witch, small town, female protagonist, good versus evil, demon, halloween, big breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Dark Shadows (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, parody, humorous, gothic horror ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, date night
Plot: vampire, witch, eccentric family, immortality, dark humor, witchcraft, magic, supernatural, curse, werewolf, ghost, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: new england, usa, liverpool, england, maine
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70%
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Style: atmospheric, artsy, melancholic, stylized, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, goth, love, supernatural, eternal life, immortality, blood, vampirism, family relations, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place: tangier morocco, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.0
 5K
Suck (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film follows a petty rock band called the Winners, consisting of vocalist Joey Winner, bassist Jennifer, guitarist Tyler, drummer Sam, and French-Canadian roadie Hugo, along with their sleazy manager Jeff, as they tour across Canada and the USA ...
Style: cynical, parody, horror comedy, suspense, scary ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, female vampire, rock, friends, musician's life, desire for fame, lifestyle, rock and roll, gory, blind ambition, concert tour ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
Style: parody, funny, spoof, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, dumb, teenager, stoner, stupidity, satire, weed, creativity, farce, supernatural ability ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Once Bitten (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she ...
Style: spoof, light, melancholic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: vampire, halloween, female vampire, aging, transformation, supernatural, virginity, femme fatale, blood, nude painting, virgin, woman seduces a man ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.
Style: humorous, not serious, horror comedy, satirical, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, fight, neighborhood, friendship between teens, racial stereotype, friends, dark humor, group of teenagers, social satire, satire, teenage life ...
Place: bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Frighteners (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more ...
Style: scary, black comedy, humorous, dark, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, serial killer, dark humor, psychic, funeral, life & death, cemetery, architect, haunted, grim reaper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: oceania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
John Dies at the End (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, absurd, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: invasion, dark humor, end of the world, dog, fictional reality, monster, out of body experience, buddies, anti hero, psychic power, save the world, portal ...
Time: year 2012
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then ...
Style: black comedy, funny, independent film, humorous, scary ...
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Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, las vegas, usa, southern usa ...
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Vampire Party (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sam, Prune et Alice sont trois amis squatteurs de soirées. Le jour où ils dénichent des invitations pour la très mystérieuse Nuit Médicis, ils pensent avoir décroché le gros lot...
Style: humorous, suspense, scary, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, isolation, danger, escapades, friendship, werewolf, party, dark humor, gross out humor, male female relationship, satire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
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Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, twist ending, anthology ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: halloween, werewolf, masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, monster, prank, halloween party, supernatural, ghost, holiday, scarecrow ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Class Reunion (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When ...
Style: slasher, spoof, parody, funny, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: high school, high school reunion, serial killer, revenge, making love, prank, teenager, death, chase, vampire, satire, murderer ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, year 1972, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Love at First Bite (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dracula and Renefield relocate to 70's era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim (the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker). "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's ...
Style: spoof, horror comedy, psychotronic, rom com, gothic ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, date night
Plot: vampire, dracula, disco, supernatural, love, halloween, satire, happy ending, hotel, 666, occult, culture clash ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Bad Taste (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style: splatter, bloody, grindhouse, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, alien invasion, violent, zombie, space and aliens, alien, extreme, exploitation, small town, ufo, chainsaw, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place: new zealand, oceania, pacific ocean
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26%
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Zombeavers (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.
Style: humorous, parody, absurd, scary, bloody ...
Plot: zombie, beaver, monster, mutation, gory, sorority girl, bear, creature feature, blood, animal, mutant, stupidity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Dr. van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the count.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dracula, vampire, supernatural, vampire bite, farce, love, satire, stupidity, goofy hero, hypnosis, save the day, heroic mission ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1890s
Place: europe, england, transylvania, romania, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Frostbitten (2006)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Vampires terrorize a city in Norrbotten, Sweden.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, scary, exciting, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, snow, world war two, virus, transformation, danger, winter, curses spells and rituals, chaos, deadly creature, imaginary ...
Time: 2000s
Place: finland, ukraine, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Ghost Team One (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.
Style: humorous, parody, not serious, scary, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, found footage, supernatural, danger, buddies, exorcism, rivalry, haunted house, halloween, satire, demon, violent content ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Vamps (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.
Style: not serious, witty, humorous, light, horror comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, vampire hunter, female vampire, supernatural romance, supernatural, fall in love, clubbing, best friend, mind control, love, disorder, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
Style: slasher, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Plot: halloween, serial killer, halloween party, psychopath, dark humor, danger, gory, guts, blood, occult, plot twist, ghost ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
I Sell the Dead (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake (Monaghan) tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy (Ron Perlman). Before long, Arthur spills the beans ...
Style: scary, stylized, humorous, dark comedy, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, undead, supernatural, vampire, grave robber, grave, cemetery, dark humor, satire, survival, macabre, death ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for ...
Style: scary, slasher, dark comedy, mockumentary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, small town, insanity, satire, found footage, journalism, dark humor, blood, maniac ...
Time: y2k, year 2006
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.3
 33K
House (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret......
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, cat, surrealism, haunted house, possession, house, piano, skeleton, evil wins, characters murdered one by one, white cat, coming of age ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.5
 77K
Scary Movie 5 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.
Style: parody, spoof, absurd, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: silly humor, ghost, toilet humor, supernatural, stupidity, brutality, violence, talking animal, goofy hero, sex tape, heroes, couples ...
Time: year 2013, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 6K
Death Valley (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A year ago, vampires, werewolves and zombies mysteriously descended upon the streets of California's San Fernando Valley. The Undead Task Force (UTF) was created to combat the emergence of monsters.
Style: mockumentary, not serious, exciting, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, vampire, werewolf, plague, supernatural, partner, dark humor, law enforcement, chaos, danger, encounter, videotaping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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