Movies like Spontaneous Combustion

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Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
 4.8
 3K
Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Style: suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, danger, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, government agency, body horror, secret past, monster, scientist, murder, conspiracy, exploitation, burned alive, anger, race against time, uncover truth, fear, female assassin, human experiment, supernatural power, pyrokinesis, science runs amok, time travel, chases and races, imaginary ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 80s, 20th century, year 1955, 1950s, 1990s
Place: california
Keyword: german, bruise

Most similar movies to Spontaneous Combustion

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense and surprise ending films with plots about danger, death, corpse, murder, blood, fear and deadly mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Spontaneous Combustion: Scanners (1981), The Fury (1978), Firestarter (1984), Dreamscape (1984), Watchers (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.7
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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
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 6.3
 17K
The Fury (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, supernatural, vengeance, telekinesis, chase, rescue, family relations, visceral, danger, espionage, parents and children, secret government organization ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1977
Place: chicago, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 37K
Firestarter (1984)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, psychic power, father daughter relationship, on the run, supernatural ability, danger, government agency ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 18K
Dreamscape (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in ...
Style: surreal, psychological, cult classic, futuristic, suspense ...
Plot: dream, psychic, psychic power, conspiracy, nightmare, lucid dream, nuclear holocaust, scientist, train, monster, surrealism, u.s. president ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: washington d.c., illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Watchers (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature feature, dog, creature, laboratory, genetic mutation, experiment gone awry, survival, genetic engineering, mad scientist, danger, on the run, boy dog relationship ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Man's Best Friend (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.
Style: scary, intense, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, killer dog, chase, gory, monster, dog attack, animal attack, dangerous animal, animal, dog, survival, animal experimentation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Terminal Man (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, medical horror, cult classic, depressing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, cyberpunk, home invasion, serial killer, murder, human experiment, cognitive science, machine, paranoid, evil computer, computer, medicine ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 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 ⇓
40%
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Death Machine (1994)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in ...
Style: cyber, perverse, grindhouse, thrilling, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, killer robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, survival horror, survival, terminator, monster, machine, distopia ...
Time: future, 90s, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
 77K
The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 138K
Hollow Man (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can ...
Style: scary, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: invisible man, invisibility, psychopath, experiment, monster, rape, mad scientist, scientist, stalker, voyeur, transformation, voyeurism ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future ...
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.9
 6K
Guyver (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa - a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation - being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as "The Guyver" from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, rescue, monster, martial arts, superhuman powers, heroic mission, good versus evil, space and aliens, superpower, experiment gone awry, anti hero, mad scientist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 7K
Silent Rage (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
Style: slasher, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, murder, monster, chase, serial killer, survival, mad scientist, hospital, small town, mixed martial arts, home invasion, maniac ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 22K
The Hidden (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.4
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They Crawl (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
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37%
 4.9
 2K
Progeny (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
Style: serious, slasher, grindhouse, mystic, sexy ...
Plot: pregnancy, impregnation, interspecies sex, alien, evil alien, alien invasion, ufo, monster, abduction, alien encounter, alien abduction, body horror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.2
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Dark Breed (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, rescue, astronaut, heroic mission, save the world, against the rules, race against time, heroes, space travel, danger, supernatural, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Vindicator (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.
Style: grindhouse, retro, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robot, cyberpunk, terminator, profanity, laboratory, experiment gone awry, killer robot, danger, mad scientist, cybernetics, violence, brain ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Contamination (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, mars, macabre, alien monster, murder, investigation, good versus evil, danger, survival, race against time, space travel, ghost ship ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: new york, latin america, usa, florida, south america ...
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37%
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, torture, texas chainsaw massacre, survival, psychopath, murder, masked killer, psychological torture, hitchhiker ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, florida, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Kindred (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, mutant, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, secrets, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.6
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Firestarter (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style: suspense, action adventure, psychotronic, crying, neo noir ...
Plot: psychic, stephen king, fear, superpower, telepathy, pyrokinesis, fire, supernatural, evil, white supremacy, wife, loss of mother ...
Time: 2020s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
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Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Flatliners (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, medical student, near death experience, hallucination, suicide, medical experiment, experiment gone awry, obsession, bullying, manipulation, memory ...
Time: 80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 92K
Christine (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: car, obsession, killer car, macabre, classic car, supernatural, stephen king, murder, bullying, friendship, objects come to life, brutality ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1957 ...
Place: california, los angeles, southern california, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Unforgettable (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, memory, vengeance, justice, false accusation, race against time, conspiracy theory, haunted by the past, police detective, danger ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, stylized, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: monster, mad scientist, frankenstein, hunchback, frankenstein's monster, friendship, experiment gone awry, scientist, experiment, obsession, escapades, steampunk ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, future, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, scotland yard, usa, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 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 ⇓
36%
Panic in the tower (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: animal experimentation, medical school, laboratory, scientist, animal attack, mutant, danger, isolation, captivity, monster, monkey, killer animal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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