Movies like The Lazarus Effect
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The Lazarus Effect (2015)
48K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, intense, psychological, demonic, dark, minimal cast, twisted ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, death, laboratory, macabre, catholic, experiment, demon, science, gory, danger, inventions and discoveries, experiment gone awry, disorder, dog, zombie, back from the dead, possession, mad scientist, paranormal, university, hound dog, electrocuted, supernatural horror, serum ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, california
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Most similar movies to The Lazarus Effect
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and psychological films with plots about supernatural, ghost, death, paranormal, danger, demon and supernatural horror mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Lazarus Effect: Flatliners (2017), The Atticus Institute (2015), Stay Alive (2006), Case 39 (2009), Drag Me to Hell (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style:
disturbing, medical horror, serious, surprise ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, haunted by the past, medical experiment, friendship, redemption, guilt, death, near death experience, afterlife, medical student, medical, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West creates an institute to find people with supernatural abilities. When Judith Winstead comes to the facility, she exhibits amazing abilities that the military wants to turn into a weapon.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, sexy, serious, demonic ...
Plot:
exorcism, demonic possession, experiment gone awry, danger, research, military, supernatural ability, parapsychology, medical, supernatural, possession, psychic power ...
Time:
70s, year 2015, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as ...
Style:
scary, slasher, demonic, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
group of friends, virtual reality, technology gone awry, supernatural horror, ghost, teenage life, husband murders wife, supernatural, cursed object, characters killed one by one, murder, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, supernatural horror, social worker, creepy child, child abuse, macabre, twists and turns, uncover truth, mysterious character, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
horror for children, adult
Plot:
witch, demon, supernatural, evil wins, ghost, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, evil, dark humor, macabre, exorcism, legends and myths ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california
Similarity:
100%
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, dark, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creature, mutant, secrets, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style:
scary, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twins, afterlife, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, brutality, insect, death, masked killer, ghost, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
31%
104K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, ...
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, demonic, scary, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, occult, pets, evil wins, supernatural, evil child, indian burial ground, halloween, back from the dead, grieving father, undead, unhappy ending ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
maine
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
157K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, murder, gory, curse, imaginary, macabre, scared, vengeance, death, medical ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, haunted, spirit, ghost, medium, supernatural horror, evil spirit, psychic, father daughter relationship, demon, father ...
Time:
year 2010, 1950s, year 1953, 50s
Similarity:
29%
27K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
Style:
bloody, suspense, scary, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
vampire, found footage, supernatural, monster, violent, macabre, creature feature, supernatural horror, murder, travel, friends, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, canada, paris france, barcelona, vancouver
Similarity:
29%
39K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
28%
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, demonic, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, ghost, religion, found footage, supernatural, demon, evil spirit, satanic cult, supernatural horror, cursed, curses spells and rituals, paranormal activity ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
somalia, usa, southern usa, louisiana, new orleans ...
Similarity:
28%
616K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, fear, paranormal activity, panic, ghost, found footage, demon, supernatural horror, evil force, demonic possession, couples ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
america, los angeles, california, usa, san diego california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Delivery tells the story of Kyle and Rachel Massy, a young couple who agree to document their first pregnancy for a family-oriented reality show. The production spirals out-of-control after the cameras capture a series of unexplained events, leading ...
Style:
demonic, mystic, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
found footage, pregnancy, supernatural, illness, babies and infants, body horror, pregnant woman, hospital, demon, paranormal, clergy, killer child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
Style:
creepy, demonic, tense, suspenseful, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, paranormal activity, found footage, haunted house, supernatural horror, haunting, paranormal phenomena, demon, child in peril, monster, haunted ...
Time:
80s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, year 1988 ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
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32K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hacker, ghost, college, paranoia, supernatural horror, suicide, internet, apocalypse, afterlife, danger, college life, computers and web ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, stylized, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
possession, seance, paranormal phenomena, cameraman, found footage, skepticism, poltergeist, doll, experiment, professor, mad doctor, supernatural ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, tense, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, supernatural horror, evil force, supernatural, family in danger, father daughter relationship, danger, demonic possession, possessed girl, ghost, parents and children, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, middle east, usa, seattle
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bella Thorne stars in this spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni (Thorne) receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious ...
Style:
mysterious, disturbing, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, teenage girl, death, paranormal phenomena, life & death, post apocalypse, fear, skating, supernatural power, high school, murder ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they ...
Style:
psychotronic, scary, unusual plot structure, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, back from the dead, possession, mental patient, supernatural, death, cosmic horror, mental illness, possessed human, reanimated corpse, supernatural power, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, america, tennessee
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's ...
Style:
scary, gothic, creepy, demonic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunting, haunted, paranormal phenomena, occult, seance, evil force, curses spells and rituals, cancer patient, ouija, funeral home ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 80s, year 1987, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A fraternity house throws their big "Winter Luau" party but when fraternity brothers and coeds begin dying horrible deaths they discover an evil entity has taken over the house.
Style:
erotic, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, party, exorcism, investigation, danger, evil force, death, brutality, haunted by the past ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute ...
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, demonic, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, supernatural horror, demon, haunted house, video surveillance, demonic possession, haunting, death, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, evil force ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style:
scary, slasher, gothic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, mental institution, survival, danger, haunted by the past, murder, ghost, evil spirit, isolation ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During an all-night, drug-fueled party at an abandoned asylum known for the horrific treatment of its patients, a group of ordinary teens decide to experiment with the occult, mysteriously leading to a violent possession. In an effort to find help, ...
Style:
slasher, rough, bleak, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
exorcism, possession, demon, ghost, abandoned hospital, murder, revenge, party, friendship, secret, characters killed one by one, trapped ...
Place:
rhode island
Similarity:
27%
116K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, ship, ghost, ghost ship, supernatural horror, survival, gory, danger, ocean, twists and turns, macabre, shipwreck ...
Time:
2000s, year 1962, 60s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, pacific ocean, alaska
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, disappearance, vestiges of humanity, group of strangers, supernatural, darkness, survival, hospital, danger, chaos, death ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
27%
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