Movies like The Black Cat 1981
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The Black Cat (1981)
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Original name: Black Cat: Gatto nero
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
Style:
gothic, demonic, slasher, psychological, serious, scary, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, murder, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, dangerous animal, supernatural ability, danger, edgar allan poe, animal life, characters killed one by one, black cat, monster, darkness, exploitation, survival horror, arson, macabre, photographer, paranormal, hypnosis, fortune telling, creature ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Place:
england, europe
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Most similar movies to The Black Cat
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and slasher films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, murder, blood, gory and ghost mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like The Black Cat: City of the Living Dead (1980), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), Beyond the Door II (1977), The Beyond (1981), Inferno (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style:
scary, bloody, disturbing, splatter, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, gory, suicide, violent, curse, extreme violence, buried alive, darkness, living dead, small town, ouija, apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1980, 80s
Place:
new england, usa, savannah georgia, new york, georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Style:
suspense, creepy, scary, gothic, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
witch, murder, boarding school, coven, black magic, gory, supernatural, ballet school, witchery, spell, killer, darkness ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, italy, west germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Style:
atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, losing-it hero, death of husband, supernatural, doctor patient relationship, vengeance, mysterious character, danger, parents and children, haunted by the past, family relations ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, gothic, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
violent, supernatural horror, blindness, gory, darkness, ghost, afterlife, hell, zombie attack, murder, haunted house, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
louisiana, italy, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Style:
dark, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
death, amateur detective, witch, haunted house, gory, supernatural, violent, murder, serial killer, eclipse, danger, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
italy, rome italy, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An archaelogist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed enity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, curse, ghost, evil child, folk horror, bird attack, paranormal, occult, psychic, ancient egypt, psychic power ...
Time:
80s
Place:
egypt, africa, usa, middle east, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her ...
Style:
anthology, gothic, creepy, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
blood, zombie, spirit, macabre, greed, ghost, murder, older woman younger man relationship, female criminal, inquisition, supernatural, gory ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 90s
Place:
america, pittsburgh, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
Style:
bloody, psychotronic, lovecraft, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, blood, gory, violent, murder, insanity, serial killer, ghost, vengeance, undead, dead body, babysitter ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, boston, new england
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rat, drifter, stephen king, supernatural, creature, gory, eaten alive, twists and turns, dangerous animal, deadly creature, rescue, uncover truth ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
maine, usa, new england
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
Style:
gothic horror, atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, curse, afterlife, supernatural, haunted house, woman in jeopardy, rottweiler, danger, haunted by the past, psychopath, domestic disturbance, mysterious character ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
26%
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:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, demonic, creepy, spooky ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunted, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1974
Place:
long island, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, witch, castle, curse, torture chamber, supernatural, hanging, auction, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
15th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, curse, vengeance, danger, obsession, supernatural, zombie, serial killer, brother brother relationship, monster, murderer, bare breasts ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1969, victorian era, year 1865
Place:
africa, london, england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his ...
Style:
slasher, detective, retro, cult classic, creepy ...
Plot:
female nudity, serial killer, supernatural, execution, supernatural horror, bare breasts, monster, haunted house, paranormal, dead, electric chair, psychopath ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Style:
demonic, perverse, scary, classic horror, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
haunted house, demon, witchery, elevator, gory, monster, supernatural, halloween, hardcore, plague, exploitation, virus ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hamburg germany, europe, italy, rome italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, supernatural, castle, good versus evil, priest, village, monster, dangerous attraction, supernatural ability, murder, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 19th century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, adult
Plot:
serial killer, blood, violence, masked man, gory, monster, two killers, nightmare on elm street, brutality, murder, serial teen killer, danger ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, year 1973, year 1957, 80s ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, midwest
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
Style:
grindhouse, slasher, bloody, detective, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, magician, blood, exploitation, hypnosis, gory, supernatural, magic, murderer, killer, cemetery, fire ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
During a fun-filled getaway at a remote lake, teenager Kim (Dominique Swain) and her friends unwittingly unleash a murderous spirit when they make the mistake of playing the game 'Dead Mary' in this horror story. The body count rises as ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
urban legend, psychopath, youth, supernatural, ghost, danger, buddies, mind game, evil witch, obsession, isolation, witch ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, cannibal, blood, cannibalism, island, extreme, survival, danger, isolation, mysterious character, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
europe, athens greece, greece
Similarity:
20%
21K
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, afterlife, ghost child, psychopath, vengeance, vampire, supernatural ability, satanic ritual, solar eclipse, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Story:
Alicia Stone returns in this gore-drenched sequel. Having lost all hope, husband Jason calls on the help of Paranormal TV host Tyson to confront the demonic forces that have plagued the Stone household.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, violence, demon, poltergeist, revenge, blood, death, curse, evil doll, woman in danger, pursuit, family in danger ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style:
scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, danger, death, murder, domestic disturbance, family in danger, paranormal activity, torture, brutality ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place:
wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
Style:
gothic, grim, atmospheric, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
haunted house, mad scientist, supernatural, murder, madness, insanity, edgar allan poe, zombie, revenge, ghost, psychosis, macabre ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house...
Style:
scary, bloody, intense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, demonic possession, female nudity, family in danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, murder, parents and children, danger, supernatural ability, haunted ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit ...
Style:
gothic horror, classic horror, gothic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
witch, ghost, supernatural, murder, knight, underground, virus, dead, kingdom, death, revenge, witchcraft ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, who done it, psychopath, vengeance, ghost, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, murder, supernatural ability, obsessive quest, deadly creature ...
Similarity:
19%
12K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Venom is a fright-filled voodoo thriller loaded with a sizzling cast of the screen's hottest young stars. Set deep in the eerie swamps of southern Louisiana - Agnes Bruckner (Murder By Numbers), Jonathan Jackson (Tuck Everlasting) and Meagan ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, bloody, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
swamp, voodoo, danger, gory, snake, monster, youth, curses spells and rituals, back from the dead, characters murdered one by one, supernatural, murder ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
18%
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