Movies like Re-Animator
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Re-Animator (1985)
78K
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, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy, cult classic, medical horror, dark comedy, independent film, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, dark humor, female nudity, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, doctor, evil scientist, science runs amok, black magic, darkness, reanimation, death, brain, gay subtext, medical research, blood, guts, sex scene, science ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
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Most similar movies to Re-Animator
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, weird, horror comedy and cult classic films with plots about deadly, gory, violence, gore, zombie, blood and exploitation mostly in Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Re-Animator: Evil Dead II (1987), Cemetery Man (1994), From Beyond (1986), Night of the Creeps (1986), The Return of the Living Dead (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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, horror comedy, black comedy, independent film, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, zombie, laboratory, police detective, hospital, gay subtext, reanimation, gory, reanimated corpse, mind control, obsession, dog ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, peru, south america, usa
Similarity:
100%
195K
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, bloody, classic horror, lovecraft, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
evil dead, demon, gory, haunted house, supernatural, demonic possession, dark humor, undead, chainsaw, woods, blood, zombie ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, medieval times, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
michigan, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, cult classic, sexy, creepy ...
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, male nudity, insanity, erotica, prostitute, grave digger, graphic violence, living dead, death, violent, undead ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style:
lovecraft, scary, sexy, demonic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
mad scientist, body horror, monster, transformation, alternate dimension, mutant, insanity, parallel world, decapitation, cthulhu, gory, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style:
cult classic, cult horror, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, violence, zombie, dark humor, police, supernatural, parasite, fraternity, macabre, monster, gory, survival ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
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, horror comedy, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, dark humor, supernatural, apocalypse, toxic waste, infected, youth, gory, plague, night of the living dead, epidemic, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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:
lovecraft, cult classic, medical horror, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
mad scientist, prison, zombie, afterlife, childhood trauma, undead, dark humor, insanity, laboratory, gory, experiment, convict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style:
black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
Similarity:
100%
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94K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style:
entertaining, scary, horror comedy, spooky, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, parasite, monster, dark humor, small town, zombie, zombie attack, body horror, transformation, creature feature, infection ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
bloody, slasher, splatter, scary, horror comedy ...
Plot:
body horror, siamese twins, macabre, hospital, gory, evil twin, freak, monster, revenge, twins, public nudity, raped by monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
10K
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:
spoof, cult classic, black comedy, scary, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
resurrection, reluctant partners, buddy cop, zombie, reanimation, undead, monster, vengeance, violence, gory, police investigation, supernatural ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
109K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Style:
bloody, dark comedy, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, zombie, dark humor, living dead, infection, eaten alive, terror, monster, supernatural, zombie attack, body horror, macabre ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Similarity:
100%
21K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, cult horror, slasher, absurd ...
Plot:
addiction, conspiracy, zombie, satire, small town, consumerism, ghost town, body horror, ice cream, boy, infiltration, supermarket ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, gothic, horror comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
werewolf, monster, nightmare, transformation, supernatural, full moon, violence, monster as victim, gory, wolf, ghost, hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, northern england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel ...
Style:
horror comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, black comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
prostitute, hooker, frankenstein, killed during sex, female objectification, brain transplant, man hits a woman, exploitation, monster, female monster, pimp, cocaine ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, bloody, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, satire, vigilante, gory, absurd violence, freak, absurdism, monster, bullying, blood, corruption, extreme violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, erotic, stylized, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, stripper, violence, striptease, experiment gone awry, eaten alive, deadly virus, virus, plague, chaos, danger, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, toxic, homelessness, misfit, drunkenness, rape, junkyard, death, store, supernatural, experiment gone awry, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, scary, medical horror, classic horror ...
Plot:
mad doctor, mad scientist, surgery, gay slur, homophobic slur, mind control, survival, hospital, experiment gone awry, danger, violence, laboratory ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become ...
Style:
lovecraft, scary, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, haunted house, cannibalism, violence, blindness, brutality, freak, monster, inheritance, macabre, murder, redemption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
520K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
antarctica, antarctic, south pole
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Style:
horror comedy, creepy, dark comedy, surreal, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, conspiracy, surrealism, secret society, dark humor, cannibalism, cheerleader, paranoia, transformation, satire, black magic, making love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Aliens, who look like clowns, arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people in order to use them as sustenance.
Style:
parody, dark comedy, horror comedy, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
clown, killer clown, monster, ufo, alien, extraterrestrial, evil clown, alien abduction, rescue, alien invasion, amusement park, small town ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
51K
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:
grindhouse, humorous, dark comedy, surreal, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, alien invasion, violent, space and aliens, ufo, food, extreme, exploitation, small town, alien, chainsaw, stoned ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place:
new zealand, pacific ocean, oceania
Similarity:
100%
57K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style:
anthology, bloody, grindhouse, frightening, cult horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, torture, revenge, stephen king, murder, monster, halloween, dark humor, transformation, gory, violent, zombie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1830s, 19th century, future
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
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, spooky, slasher, psychological, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
halloween, werewolf, masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, supernatural horror, halloween party, monster, prank, corpse, holiday horror, scarecrow ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their ...
Style:
cult classic, horror comedy, dark, slasher, classic horror ...
Plot:
body horror, creature, twins, babies and infants, violence, freak, birth, misfit, little creatures, baby born, creature feature, exploitation ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Similarity:
100%
44K
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, cult classic, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, tall man, twists and turns, cemetery, funeral, small town, supernatural, mausoleum, hearse, murder, adaptation, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, 80s
Place:
usa, southern california, california, oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, dark humor, zombie apocalypse, pub, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, satire, zombie violence, eaten alive, supernatural, siege, flesh eating zombie ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The "head" of the family is literally that--a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family.
Style:
semi serious, scary, humorous, suspenseful, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex scene, femme fatale, dark humor, infidelity, eccentric family, disorder, love affair, experiment gone awry, misfit, mentally challenged, murder, diner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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