Movies like Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
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Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies.
Style:
slasher, splatter, scary, gothic, enigmatic, humorous, surreal, twist ending, stylized, campy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, space and aliens, monster, serial killer, tall man, zombie, cemetery, catastrophe, demon, mutant, violence, macabre, death, morgue, murder, camp, afterlife, immortality, suspense, weapons, hospital, male nudity, fantasy world, brutality, sexualized violence ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Most similar movies to Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, splatter, scary and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, monster, mentor, catastrophe, dialogue, violence and fantasy world mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead: Phantasm (1979), Phantasm II (1988), Dead Heat (1988), Puppet Master 4 (1993), Curse of the Puppet Master (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, harsh, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, zombie, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, twists and turns, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa
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100%

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man ...
Style:
slasher, splatter, scary, road movie, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, mortician, cemetery, morgue, good versus evil, monster, zombie, death, chainsaw, priest, funeral home, cult ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon, usa, california
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100%

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.
Style:
scary, humorous, parody, splatter, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, zombie, buddy cop, vengeance, mad scientist, supernatural, police investigation, exploitation, resurrection, motorcycle, violence, investigation ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

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 ⇓
40%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A young scientist working on an artificial intelligence project is the target of strange gremlin-like creatures, who are out to kill him and thus terminate his research. By coincidence, in one of the rooms he uses, there's a mysterious case ...
Style:
slasher, scary, absurd, feel good, allegory ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, monster, doll, killer doll, ghost, supernatural, demon, evil doll, revenge, vengeance, adaptation, weapons ...
Time:
90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. So he decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.
Style:
campy, parody, humorous, splatter, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
camp, villain, exploitation, farce, monster, devil, superhero, twists and turns, satire, misfit, freak, nude ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Robert "Tank" begins to work for Dr. Magrew sculpting a puppet for the Doctor to bring to life using the work of Andre Toulon. Robert begins to fall in love with the Doctors daughter, Jane. Unbeknownst to Robert the Doctor is trying to ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, serial killer, vengeance, murder, monster, brutality, secrets, supernatural ability, mind game, doll, supernatural, nightmare ...
Time:
90s
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38%

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, desert, flashback, time travel, good versus evil, zombie, riddles and clues, siblings relations, heroic mission, obsessive quest, master villain, escapades ...
Place:
tokyo
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19%

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in Berlin during WWII, the Nazi regime is attempting to develop a drug that will animate the dead, in order to use in the war effort. Toulin arouses suspicion as a Nazi dissident, and his secret is discovered. During a Nazi raid on his home, ...
Style:
slasher, dark, stylized, melancholic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, monster, zombie, world war two, doll, nazi occultism, supernatural, killer doll, violence, nude, evil doll, lone hero ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Style:
funny, splatter, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, apocalypse, living dead, monster, dark humor, undead, virus, stripper, toxic waste, catastrophe, mentor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The puppets return, this time they hunt some Paranormal Researchers to take their brain fluid for the dead/living puppet master, Andre Toulon
Style:
slasher, gothic, scary, atmospheric, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, zombie, doll, hotel, killer doll, murder, violence, monster, death, macabre, suspense, investigation ...
Time:
90s, year 1912, 1910s
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%

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
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monster, beach, supernatural, death, suspense, violence, murder, brutality, missing person, escapades, lone hero, sarcasm ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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37%

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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:
scary, rough, atmospheric, enigmatic, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
puppet, evil doll, murder, supernatural, deadly creature, killer doll, violence, suspense, secrets, transformation, doll, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
new york, yale university, pacific ocean, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%

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 ⇓
36%

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
tall man, desert, disorder, another dimension, friends, society, friend, youth, friendship, suspense, monster, serial killer ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, supernatural, witch, monster, vengeance, murder, suspense, pumpkin, revenge, father son relationship, creature, death in the family ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Toxic Avenger is lured to Tokyo, Japan by the evil corporation Apocalypse Inc. So while the Toxic Avenger is fighting crime in Tokyo, Apocalypse Inc. spread evil in Tromaville.
Style:
campy, parody, humorous, bloody, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
superhero, mutant, villain, misfit, vengeance, monster, exploitation, farce, violence, crazy, mad scientist, transformation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, japan, tokyo, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, campy, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, supernatural, genie, djinn, death, monster, violence, wish come true, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, macabre, devil ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

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 ...
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future, 22nd century, 1780s, year 1996, 20th century ...
Place:
france, manhattan new york city, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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
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monster, mutant, police investigation, toxic, experiment gone awry, murder, survival, exploitation, creature feature, cult, violence, toxic waste ...
Time:
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Place:
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35%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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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 ...
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Stilling reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.
Style:
exciting, scary, rough, suspenseful, semi serious ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster ...
Style:
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Plot:
vampire, werewolf, supernatural, dracula, steampunk, transformation, frankenstein, monster, good versus evil, dark hero, heroic mission, immortality ...
Time:
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the evil, or banish it for another six hundred years. An order of Druids battles with a Warlock ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Daniel.
Style:
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teens
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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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 ...
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Audience:
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Time:
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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 ...
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34%
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