Movies like Rabid 1977

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Rabid (1977)
 6.3
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Rabid (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, controversial, christmas horror, medical horror ...
Plot: vampire, body horror, epidemic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hospital, virus, zombie, violence, cannibalism, insanity, infected, infection, disaster, bare breasts, mutation, canuxploitation, murder, surgery, gory, accident, rabies, experiment gone awry, medical, tragedy, mutant ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: montreal, canada, quebec, montreal quebec, montreal quebec canada
Keyword: doctors, oldies, canadian, candy, movie theatre, outburst

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Most similar movies to Rabid

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, rough and serious films with plots about gore, blood, gory, danger, deadly, murder and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Rabid: The Brood (1979), Shivers (1975), The Grapes of Death (1978), Pontypool (2008), 28 Weeks Later (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Brood (1979)
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: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, creepy ...
Plot: body horror, killer child, murder, creepy child, transformation, supernatural, child abuse, psychiatrist, mental illness, strangulation, monster, surrealism ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 6.3
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Shivers (1975)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Style: scary, disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, suspense ...
Plot: body horror, parasite, exploitation, zombie, gory, sex maniac, rape, mad scientist, plague, infected, violence, insanity ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
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Rabid (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When a young woman is left scarred beyond recognition following an accident, she undergoes a radical untested stem-cell treatment. And while the procedure turns her into the belle of the ball, the experimental transformation comes at a price...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak, grindhouse ...
Plot: body horror, fashion designer, pandemic, amnesia, rabies, mad scientist, bloodlust, virus, zombie, medical experiment, vampire, job ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Grapes of Death (1978)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.
Style: surreal, grindhouse, gothic, suspense, art house ...
Plot: exploitation, living dead, infected, disease, virus, undead, zombie, epidemic, grape, murder, macabre, porn ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 35K
Pontypool (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, epidemic, deadly virus, virus, radio station, survival, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, radio, infection, small town, fear ...
Time: year 2008, distant future
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 292K
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, post apocalypse, infection, chaos, gory ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 61K
Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: disturbing, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.2
 102K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 4.0
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Parasite (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, alien, bio weapon, danger ...
Time: future, year 1982, year 1992, 90s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.2
 71K
Re-Animator (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style: splatter, lovecraft, black comedy, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, mad scientist, guts, hospital, gory, experiment, insanity, mad doctor, overdose, reanimated corpse, female nudity, laboratory ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: zurich switzerland, massachusetts, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Nightmare City (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, airplane, zombie apocalypse, infected, zombie attack, danger, countryside, apocalypse, rescue, virus, survival, chaos ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: southern italy, rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.6
 83K
Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, infected, disease, body horror, plague, danger, fear, woods, survival, cabin in the woods, friendship ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.1
 15K
The Crazies (1973)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: epidemic, virus, plague, infected, quarantine, infection, zombie, isolation, disaster, disease, military, survival ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, asia, vietnam, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.6
 4K
Carnosaur (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, mad scientist, virus, creature feature, danger, genetics, creature, kaiju, chaos, deadly creature, tyrannosaurus rex, disorder ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: nevada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 29K
The Bay (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: infection, parasite, found footage, disaster, virus, plague, disease, ecological disaster, apocalypse, infected, danger, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by ...
Style: scary, splatter, lovecraft, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mad scientist, zombie, prison, undead, afterlife, insanity, survival, laboratory, monster, gory, experiment, doctor ...
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.8
 31K
Zombie (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, island, virus, zombie apocalypse, gory, apocalypse, shark, living dead, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, violence, monster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, italy, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style: lovecraft, black comedy, splatter, horror comedy, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, zombie, gory, laboratory, stop motion, reanimation, hospital, reanimated corpse, monster, undead, body horror, virus ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: massachusetts, south america, usa, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 6.0
 6K
Infection (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.
Style: scary, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: infection, hospital, gory, medical, virus, mental illness, dishonesty, isolation, zombie, body horror, epidemic, pandemic ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, evil alien, astronaut, body horror, mutant, escapades, supernatural, space travel, disorder, battles, danger, imaginary ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style: suspense, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie attack, gory, virus, end of the world, violence, cannibalism, post apocalyptic, zombie outbreak ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 1995, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 9K
It's Alive (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: supernatural, murder, creepy child, monster, body horror, gory, serial killer, isolation, mutant, investigation, deadly creature, family in danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, seattle, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.6
 14K
C.H.U.D. (1984)
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, grindhouse, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, police investigation, toxic, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, danger, survival, murder, exploitation, creature, mutant ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, infected, virus, plague, insanity, deadly virus, survival, gory, infection, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, transformation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, gory, female nudity, virus, pandemic, zombie violence, danger, living dead, race against time, survival, zombie child ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: papua new guinea, barcelona, europe, italy, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
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: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot: island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, mind game, investigation, danger, experiment gone awry, murder, monster, body horror ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: cuba, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Forbidden World (1982)
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: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, creature feature, mutant, laboratory, exploitation, creature, cocoon, monster, mad scientist, genetics, space and aliens, danger ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: infection, virus, laboratory, pandemic, quarantine, murder, survival, death, body horror, contamination, danger, plague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: fictional island, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mulberry Street (2006)
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, apocalypse, supernatural, save the world, plague, virus, epidemic, danger ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A reboot of the "Resident Evil" franchise. Set in 1998, the intention is to re-create the 'terrifying visceral experience' of the first two games in the series, exploring 'the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, virus, female warrior, infection, resident evil, mutant, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, one against many, one woman army, end of the world ...
Time: future, 2020s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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