Movies like Shivers
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Shivers (1975)
26K
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:
sexual, disturbing, grindhouse, suspense, erotic, sexy, suspenseful, cynical, black comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
exploitation, parasite, sex maniac, rape, sex, insanity, body horror, gory, zombie, evil wins, elevator, lust, sexually transmitted disease, puffy nipples, mad scientist, violent, plague, infected, island, sexuality, dangerous attraction, orgy, creature feature, doctor, nymphomaniac ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal, montreal quebec canada
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Most similar movies to Shivers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, psychotronic and weird films with plots about monster, deadly, gory, blood, danger, violence and gore mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shivers: The Brood (1979), Rabid (1977), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Videodrome (1983), Scanner Cop (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
38K
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:
creepy, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, mental illness, killer child, murder, creepy child, childhood trauma, child abuse, psychiatrist, transformation, strangulation, supernatural, mutant ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
23K
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:
cult classic, disturbing, medical horror, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
body horror, vampire, hospital, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cannibalism, virus, infection, bare breasts, infected, canuxploitation, disaster, zombie ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, montreal, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, frightening, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, dystopia, doppelganger, extraterrestrial, alien parasite, supernatural, parasite, evil wins, monster, alien possession, body horror ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 1950s, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
112K
Genre: Drama, 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, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychic power, supernatural, investigation, vengeance, gory, supernatural ability, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, adoption, police station, cop ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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%
9K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide ...
Style:
surreal, grindhouse, spooky, slasher, classic horror ...
Plot:
alien abduction, nudity, alien, clown, birth, female nudity, body horror, ufo, exploitation, monster, alien invasion, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1982, 80s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, sexy, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
exploitation, rape, raped by monster, sea creature, sex, fisherman, female nudity, fishing village, humanoid, impregnation, creature feature, childbirth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, scary, psychotronic, retro ...
Plot:
pregnancy, impregnation, rape, alien, cave, murder, evil alien, woman in labor, characters killed one by one, space monster, pregnant from rape, trapped in space ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
Similarity:
100%
67K
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:
bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot:
body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada
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%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, grindhouse, captivating ...
Plot:
exploitation, seduction, small town, lesbian, bee, outdoor sex, passionate kiss, attempted rape, scientist, gang rape, insect, murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california
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%
29K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style:
demonic, scary, satanic, perverse, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
demon, zombie, plague, body horror, gory, death, demonic possession, supernatural, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, europe, berlin germany, germany, italy ...
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:
50%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
Style:
scary, creepy, gothic, suspense, satanic ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, devil, secret society, model, occult, investigation, supernatural horror, murder, hell, demon ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, italy, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the ...
Style:
sexy, gothic horror, gothic, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot:
sex horror, male nudity, male pubic hair, frankenstein, male full rear nudity, public nudity, nudity, female pubic hair, laboratory, mad scientist, gay, eugenics ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
serbia, france, europe
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 99 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, suspense, rough, tense, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, infection, post apocalypse, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, france ...
Similarity:
31%
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 ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
Similarity:
31%
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, medical horror, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, bio weapon, danger, plague ...
Time:
future, year 1992, year 1982, 90s, near future ...
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
222K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
31%
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:
cult classic, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, island, virus, zombie outbreak, gory, survival horror, zombie attack, living dead, zombie apocalypse, boat, doctor, shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, caribbean, italy, fictional island ...
Similarity:
31%
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38K
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, tense, suspenseful, creepy, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, deadly virus, virus, epidemic, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, radio, infection, small town, survival, insanity, fear ...
Time:
year 2008, distant future
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
14K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parasite, quarantine, scientist, deadly creature, expedition, infected, disaster, danger, plague, epidemic, infection, isolation ...
Time:
prehistory, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, suspenseful, scary, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brutality, zombie, violent, chaos, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, survival, danger, murder, virus, epidemic, violence spree ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
29%
15K
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, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, toxic, police investigation, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, survival, danger, murder, exploitation, creature, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
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, intense, medical horror, scary, creepy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
epidemic, infected, virus, plague, infection, quarantine, zombie, disaster, isolation, disease, military, survival ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, vietnam, usa, asia, washington d.c.
Similarity:
29%
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:
medical horror, suspenseful, serious, scary, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, mutant, cocoon, female scientist, monster attack, experiment gone awry, genetic engineering, creature feature, monster, laboratory, creature, babe scientist ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, future
Similarity:
29%
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