Movies like Shivers

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Shivers (1975)
 6.3
 23K
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, sexual, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, cynical ...
Plot: body horror, parasite, exploitation, zombie, gory, sex maniac, rape, mad scientist, plague, infected, violence, insanity, island, sexually transmitted disease, creature feature, sex, violent, danger, dangerous attraction, doctor, evil wins, elevator, lust, nurse, bare chested male ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: canada, montreal, montreal quebec canada
Keyword: attack, doctors, change

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Most similar movies to Shivers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and cult classic films with plots about deadly, blood, gory, monster, gore, danger and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shivers: The Brood (1979), Rabid (1977), Slither (2006), Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989), Xtro (1982). 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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100%
 6.3
 21K
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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: vampire, body horror, epidemic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hospital, virus, zombie, violence, insanity, cannibalism, infected, infection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: montreal, canada, quebec
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100%
 6.5
 88K
Slither (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
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: suspense, entertaining, black comedy, space horror, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: alien, monster, parasite, zombie, body horror, alien invasion, gory, zombie attack, infection, creature feature, creature, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
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: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, experimental, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, very little dialogue, metamorphosis, sex, hit and run, businessman, mutilation, apocalypse, transformation, distopia ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.6
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Xtro (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 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, slasher, retro, classic horror ...
Plot: alien abduction, alien, nudity, evil wins, female nudity, creature feature, alien invasion, monster, birth, abduction, creature, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, year 2016, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, creepy, psychological ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, supernatural, dystopia, female nudity, body horror, end of the world, monster, parasite, evil wins, epidemic, great ending ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
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: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, raped by monster, rape, monster, impregnation, survival, creature feature, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, fisherman, humanoid ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 2K
Scanner Cop (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
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, rough, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, investigation, vengeance, gory, rivalry, danger, fighting crime, supernatural ability, police station, adoption, cop ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, los angeles
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100%
 6.6
 26K
Demons (1985)
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, suspense, splatter, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, demon, plague, gory, body horror, supernatural, demonic possession, death, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, west germany, germany, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
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, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 12K
The Sentinel (1977)
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, gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, model, haunted house, devil, occult, secret society, investigation, murder, hell, demon, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, italy, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
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: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.6
 200K
The Fly (1986)
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, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
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 4.0
 3K
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 ⇓
31%
 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 ⇓
31%
 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%
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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, 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: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, scary, grindhouse ...
Plot: zombie, sex horror, frankenstein, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair, public nudity, laboratory, male nudity, mad scientist, gay, gory ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 19th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
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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 ⇓
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%
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%
 5.2
 13K
The Thaw (2009)
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: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, quarantine, plague, expedition, infected, deadly creature, scientist, beast, disaster, danger, epidemic, infection ...
Time: prehistory, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 6.0
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The Signal (2007)
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: suspenseful, scary, dark comedy, psychological, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, brutality, chaos, psychopath, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, danger, survival, murder, virus, epidemic ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ 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%
 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%
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%
 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
 41K
Phantasm (1979)
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, slasher, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum, hearse, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ 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%
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