Movies like Big Monster War

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Big Monster War (1968)
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Big Monster War (1968)
Original name: 妖怪大戦争
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bizarre
Plot: ghost, vampire, supernatural, monster, demon, pagan, folklore, creature, underdog, sexploitation, folk horror, samurai, shapeshifting, youkai, village, battles, gory, ancient history, rivalry, danger, imaginary, kaiju, craziness, deadly, umbrella ...
Place: japan, asia

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Most similar movies to Big Monster War

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about supernatural, deadly, danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, rivalry and imaginary mostly in Horror, Action and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Big Monster War: Tomie: Revenge (2005), Grim (1996), Cursed (2004), Ghost Train (2006), Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, danger, doctor, forest, unrequited love, mountain, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, rivalry, violence, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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95%
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Grim (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A team of spelunkers, when investigating a system of caves beneath a small town, come across a hideous creature that can move through walls.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film ...
Plot: monster, cave, mutant, deadly creature, danger, suburbs, creature, suburban life, chaos and mayhem, gory, chaos, escapades ...
Time: 90s
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95%
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Cursed (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, spirit, woman in danger, curse, curses spells and rituals, survival, workplace, boss and employee, nightmare, obnoxious boss, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
8: A South African Horror Story (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter's soul.
Style: scary, serious, slasher
Plot: supernatural, demon, woman in danger, schoolgirl, danger, murder, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, obsession, gory, monster, possession ...
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Ghost Train (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, train, missing person, supernatural, friendship, danger, gory, past, violence, subway, post apocalypse, train wreck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's a face-off against two of the most evil supernatural forces: vampires fueled by bloodlust and zombies who've come back from the dead to prey on the living. The two camps are bent on proving their superiority, so it's a race to ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, exciting, feel good ...
Plot: vampire, chaos, good versus evil, imaginary, save the world, supernatural, rivalry, save the day, danger, uninhibited rivalry, obsessive quest, gory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Visions of Suffering (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
Style: surreal, suspenseful, serious, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, stalking, alien encounter, gory, extreme, surrealism, hallucination ...
Time: 21st century
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69%
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Primitive (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After being forced to visit a hypnotist, Martin receives news of his estranged mother's passing. He returns home for the funeral, and before long, people start dropping dead. The victims - brutally torn apart by what appears to be a predatory ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, curses spells and rituals, estrangement, supernatural, mentally unstable, bigfoot, creature, demon, rivalry, showdown, violence, human host ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Savage Harvest (1994)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the ...
Style: independent film, slasher, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot: redsploitation, wizards and magicians, kids in trouble, mentally unstable, vampire, supernatural ability, danger, zombie, ghost, deadly creature, supernatural, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Mummy Resurrected (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A team of archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, unleashing a deadly curse from its eternal tomb.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, independent film, psychotronic
Audience: teens
Plot: mummy, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, escapades, danger, rivalry, imaginary, good versus evil, deadly creature, monster, youth, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east
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62%
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Death's Door (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a television psychic begins to get real results, the cast and crew of the show find themselves trapped by vengeful spirits.
Style: mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, paranormal, rivalry, good versus evil, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, psychic, reverend, crew, evil spirit, murderer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Bled (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sai, a young artist living in a downtown warehouse delves into an ancient world of blood and lust. An enigmatic foreigner seduces her to try a long forgotten drug making her the prey of a dimensional vampire who needs her new found hunger for blood ...
Style: suspense, sexy, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, female vampire, deadly creature, danger, parallel world, addiction, imaginary, sex scene, painter, curses spells and rituals, gory ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Sadako 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural, vengeance, heroes, danger, ghost, school, computers and web, teenage life, woman in danger, cons and scams, supernatural power, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Apartment 1303 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, suicide, uncover truth, losing-it hero, investigation, danger, grudge, curses spells and rituals, urban legend, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Shriek (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided ...
Style: slasher, scary, queer horror, independent film, serious ...
Plot: monster, hospital, lesbian, college, beauty, psychopath, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, escapades, rivalry, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
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57%
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The Damned (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: vampire, police investigation, danger, zombie, supernatural, amateur detective, heroes, investigation, imaginary, protagonist as suspect, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
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55%
Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, youth, teenage life, mutant, gory, female killer, mysterious girl, brutality, school class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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55%
Tomie: Unlimited (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year ...
Style: scary, serious, tense, disturbing, splatter ...
Plot: family relations, danger, supernatural, gory, family in danger, siblings relations, youth, student life, high school life, parents and children, woman in danger, life turned upside down ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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52%
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Dead Cert (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn out to be nothing less than Vampires wanting their land back and turn viciously on the gangsters ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, gangster, imaginary, danger, violence spree, gory, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, nightclub, monster, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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52%
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Death Bed (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Karen and her significant other move to a new apartment, they discover an old antique bed. Karen absolutely loves it and she soon allows it to inspire her artwork. However, a series of disturbing dreams begin to haunt Karen. Eventually she ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, gory, technology gone awry, woman in danger, showbiz, mentally unstable, changing the past or future, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
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The Dead Matter (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.
Style: gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot: zombie, obsession, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, danger, gory, vampire, mythical creature, witchcraft, rivalry, reanimation ...
Time: 21st century
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50%
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In the Woods (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two hunters who have journeyed deep into the woods stumble across a burial site. They decide to dig it up. It is only after they uncover a strange horned skull amongst the artifacts that they become aware of the evil they have unleashed. Getting out ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, splatter
Plot: monster, woods, strong violent content, gory, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, supernatural, escapades, danger, deadly creature, ancient mystery, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
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50%
Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story: After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. Walking on a deserted beach he finds a ring with a Latin inscription,which translates as ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, christmas horror ...
Plot: ghost, beach, hotel, vengeance, danger, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, supernatural, uncover truth, ghost story, folk horror, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Pale Blood (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A vampire pretender who is murdering women runs into a real vampire who is out to stop him because he is casting too much of a spotlight on the vampire community.
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot: vampire, serial killer, switching roles, monster, profanity, loss of virginity, nudity, violent content, rivalry, law enforcement, supernatural, stalking ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Taste of Blood (1967)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, serious, scary ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, dracula, supernatural horror, escapades, good versus evil, master villain, rivalry, danger, chase, imaginary, stalking ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, england, florida, london
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Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: murder, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, mind game, gory, reincarnation, insanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, gold, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, dead, revenge, local legend, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Survival Island (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: monster, gory, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, danger, supernatural, rivalry, village, escapades, survival, sorority, island ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Witchboard III: The Possession (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Brian, an out-of-work stockbroker, is introduced by his landlord Mr. Redman to a new source of insider information: the Ouija! The Ouija makes him rich, but when Mr. Redman kills himself and Brian suffers a freak accident, Brian's wife starts ...
Style: homoerotic, independent film, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot: ouija, supernatural, ouija board, demon, witchcraft, monster, exorcism, ghost, supernatural ability, mischievous children, rivalry, terrorism ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 74
Exit 38 (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An elite unit of FBI agents hunt a conniving vampire in a small Nevada town. Can they stop him before he completes an ancient ritual that will make him the ultimate vampire, or will he destroy not only them, but the world?
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: vampire, danger, curses spells and rituals, special agent, confined, rivalry, law enforcement, supernatural, captivity, good versus evil, save the day, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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