Movies like Parents 1989

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Parents (1989)
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Parents (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.
Style: dark comedy, slasher, scary, creepy, cult classic, horror comedy, terrifying, black comedy, depressing, controversial ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, coming of age, macabre, dysfunctional family, suburbs, dark humor, youth, blood, nightmare, satire, serial killer, father, parents, child, body horror, exploitation, american horror, extreme, violent, crazy family, arthouse horror, family relations, school, parents and children ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 20th century, year 1954, 1950s
Keyword: challenge, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, scary, slasher and horror comedy films with plots about murder, danger, dark humor, exploitation, deadly, gory and gore mostly in Comedy, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Parents: Fido (2006), Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), The People Under the Stairs (1991), Motel Hell (1980), Microwave Massacre (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fido (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, funny, stylized, horror comedy ...
Plot: zombie, small town, monster, housewife, infected, master and servant, undead, canuxploitation, virus, apocalypse, satire, child's point of view ...
Time: 1950s, year 2006, 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, dysfunctional family, misfit, humiliation, teenager, youth, school, social outcast, female protagonist, childhood, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, black comedy, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: child abuse, serial killer, home invasion, kidnapping, cannibalism, disturbed individual, rottweiler, murder, incest, cannibal, child in peril, guard dog ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that ...
Style: slasher, black and white, horror comedy, dark comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: exploitation, evil child, cannibalism, misfit, serial killer, freak, cannibal, cat, redneck, inbreeding, female psychopath, mental disorder ...
Time: 60s
Place: virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Motel Hell (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style: black comedy, slasher, spoof, scary, parody ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, murder, serial killer, psychopath, violence, trap, female nudity, farmer, butcher, gory, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Microwave Massacre (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A guy kills his wife because she's a bad cook.
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, horror comedy, mockbuster ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, prostitution, therapist, serial killer, dark humor, massacre, food, pandemic, psychotic, exploitation, found footage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Blood Diner (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
Style: black comedy, scary, slasher, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: butcher, cannibalism, goddess, serial killer, insanity, massacre, psychopath, cooking and food, ancient mystery, danger, reincarnation, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Serial Killing 101 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, high school, psychopath, mind game, dark humor, police investigation, danger, youth, obsession, teenage life, stalking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Cannibal Girls (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, sexy, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: cannibal, canuxploitation, cannibalism, murder, zombie, occult, 666, food, exploitation, paranormal, nudity, restaurant ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the interest of the local sheriff (Mark McLachlan), who holds Fuad's family reputation in ill favor. Fuad is soon, ...
Style: slasher, suspense, cult classic, bloody, queer horror ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, gory, serial killer, cannibal, exploitation, erotica, extreme, guts, killer, freak, cannibalism, violent ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
 6.4
 683
Siblings (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, erotic ...
Plot: murder, dysfunctional family, crime gone awry, teenage life, eccentric family, lust, youth, siblings relations, family life, family problems, dark humor, disorder ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 37K
Housebound (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: haunted house, house arrest, supernatural, female protagonist, plot twist, parents and children, ghost, police investigation, dark humor, blood, haunted, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
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Screamplay (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the murders that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.
Style: dark comedy, slasher, black and white, psychological, surreal ...
Plot: writers, killer, nightmare, serial killer, murder, hollywood, writer's life, artists and showbiz, gory, filmmaking, screenwriter, actress ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
 386K
Scream (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, small town, maniac, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, twists and turns, violent ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.7
 181K
Evil Dead II (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed ...
Style: scary, splatter, dark comedy, slasher, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: gory, supernatural, evil dead, blood, dark humor, zombie, curses spells and rituals, undead, demon, haunted house, time travel, american horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century, medieval times, 90s ...
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
 5.9
 6K
Popcorn (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A horror film festival, held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire, turns into a real life horror show.
Style: slasher, horror comedy, scary, dark comedy, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, halloween, ghost, supernatural, maniac, killer, revenge, survival, occult, urban legend ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ...
Plot: mummy, mental illness, president, undead, dark humor, nightmare, roommate, monster, irreverent, musician, old man, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, las vegas, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.3
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Tusk (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.
Style: scary, surreal, harsh, disturbing, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: abduction, disfigurement, body horror, macabre, psychopath, monster, obsession, gory, dark humor, transformation, death, kidnapping ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
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Basket Case (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Style: slasher, bloody, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, siamese twins, gory, murder, macabre, monster, evil twin, freak, revenge, twins, violence, male nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
Style: slasher, scary, dark comedy, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, chainsaw, gory, cannibalism, masked killer, chainsaw murder, monster, radio, zombie, murder, texas chainsaw massacre, dark humor ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, dallas texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 104K
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 ⇓
21%
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 6.2
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Scream 4 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, teen horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, serial murder, high school, woman in danger, telephone call, gory, psychopath, murder, small town, revenge ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Flesh Eating Mothers (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
Style: absurd, scary, bleak, slasher, dark comedy ...
Plot: cannibalism, virus, infidelity, zombie, cannibal, child murderess, save the day, dark humor, antidote, adultery, mother, female villain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
 11K
Street Trash (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor ...
Style: disturbing, horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: body horror, toxic, misfit, store, supernatural, experiment gone awry, death, society, violence spree, zombie, gory, homelessness ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Slaughterhouse (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, vengeance, gory, survival, violent, slaughterhouse, dark humor, mentally challenged, danger, buddies, serial killer, police investigation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
20%
 5.4
 2K
Gravy (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: It's All Hallow's Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a late night of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what's on the menu.
Style: slasher, dark comedy, psychotronic, suspense, scary ...
Plot: halloween, cannibal, high school student, fear, cannibalism, brother brother relationship, dinner, hostage, danger, psychopath, brutality, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 13K
Brain Damage (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
Style: surreal, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, semi serious ...
Plot: body horror, addiction, drug abuse, hallucination, parasite, gory, creature, exploitation, monster, surrealism, murder, misfit ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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