Movies like The Wizard of Mars

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The Wizard of Mars (1965)
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The Wizard of Mars (1965)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In 1974, four astronauts, silver shoe-clad Dorothy, overweight Doc, goofy Charlie, and wooden Steve, crash land on Mars when taking readings, with only four days of supplies. They must try to survive on the surface, which is barren except for some canals with huge maggots with fins. After embarking through a golden igneous cavern, braving a storm and finding an unmanned Earth vessel, they discover a golden road which leads them to the unchanging ruins of what was once a beautiful Martian city. The Martians are modeled on the Flatheads of Oz, and their collective consciousness, the "Wizard," forbids them to leave until they perform a very small task...
Style: space horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
Plot: mars, martian, space, alien, rocket, spacesuit, outer space, raft, survival, heroes, supernatural, space and aliens, space travel, wizards and magicians, escapades, getting home, danger, imaginary, alien encounter, new year's eve, wizard
Time: 70s, 20th century
Keyword: wizards

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Most similar movies to The Wizard of Mars

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about danger, space and aliens, escapades, alien, deadly, monster and heroes mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like The Wizard of Mars: Space Probe Taurus (1965), Queen of Blood (1966), Crimson Force (2005), H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005), Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Space Probe Taurus (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In the year 2000 the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world. Written by ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: spacecraft, spaceship, alien planet, spacesuit, giant crab, monster, alien, ocean, chaos, moon, wizards and magicians, space and aliens ...
Time: 60s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Queen of Blood (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A spaceship is sent to Mars after a alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster.
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, bleak, space horror ...
Plot: vampire, alien, mars, rescue, spacecraft, supernatural, space, space travel, save the world, danger, survival, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1966, 90s, year 1990, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 3.1
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Crimson Force (2005)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic
Plot: mars, heroic mission, outer space, heroes, rivalry, danger, escapades, chaos, space wars, alien encounter, space travel, martian ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities ...
Style: intense, suspenseful, serious, mockbuster, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, survival, space travel, save the world, introspection, heroic mission, danger, supernatural, dystopian future, mars ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three earthlings (John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante) leave on a space mission to destroy flesh creatures of a prehistoric lost planet.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, plague, supernatural, vampire, space travel, space opera, alien, alien invasion, ufo, space, dinosaur, outer space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, heroic mission, mars, danger, alien encounter, young heroes, space and aliens, imaginary, heroes, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.1
 419
Dark Universe (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The shuttle crashes into a swampy region of central Florida, ...
Style: independent film, space horror, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, swamp, astronaut, female nudity, outer space, crash, trapped in space, female journalist, space mission, monster, space, space wars ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Monster Ark (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This is film-making of the shoddiest and laziest sort. Every scene is a showcase for the writer/director's ignorance. O'Brien is completely unfamiliar with science. He knows nothing of how scientists talk, how they analyze, how they ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, tomb, monster, survival, ancient mystery, danger, desert, creature, reptiles, creature feature, shipwreck, noah's ark ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Movie in collections
 2.1
 7K
Dracula 3000 (2004)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System. Captain Abraham Van Helsing and his crew composed of the blonde assistant Aurora Ash; the crippled navigator Arthur "The ...
Style: gothic, suspenseful, scary, serious, space horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dracula, vampire, supernatural, space and aliens, space travel, imaginary, good versus evil, one man army, master villain, survival, deadly creature, rescue ...
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.5
 4K
Stranded (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, trapped in space, space, supernatural, isolation, danger, alien encounter, space exploration, trapped, alien, fear, paranoia ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.3
 308
Interplanetary (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nine men and women, employees of Interplanetary Corporation, live and work on Mars. Their days aren't particularly interesting, much less exciting, until they are assaulted by a murderous band of strangers and a seemingly unstoppable alien ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, parody ...
Plot: mars, danger, chaos, space and aliens, escapades, dangerous animal, monster, alien, space exploration, martian, space, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: zombie, mad scientist, exploitation, mutant, psychopath, disorder, chaos, heist, frame up, experiment gone awry, chaos and mayhem, martial arts ...
Time: year 1967, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 856
Monster (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Style: natural horror, retro, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, kaiju, deadly creature, giant monster, creature feature, snake, dinosaur, shark, octopus, creature, animal attack, mutant ...
Time: 20th century, prehistory, 70s
Place: colombia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Not of This Earth (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
Style: tech noir, independent film, psychotronic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien, vampire, exploitation, invasion, alien invasion, weakness, heroes, race against time, danger, getting home, space and aliens, save the world ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 5K
Creature (1985)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ ...
Style: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, space, creature, alien invasion, creature feature, monster, gory, zombie, exploitation, alien abduction, virus, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems...
Style: independent film, offbeat, scary, serious, psychotronic
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, space opera, monster, venus the planet, mind control, radio, cave, satellite, secret weapon, flying saucer ...
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, evil alien, astronaut, body horror, mutant, escapades, supernatural, space travel, disorder, battles, danger, imaginary ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.1
 1K
Shadowzone (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: monster, alien, alien invasion, space, creature, nasa, female nudity, big breasts, bare breasts, extraterrestrial, violent content, nudity ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and ...
Style: tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, space horror ...
Plot: supernatural, spacecraft, outer space, space, moon, isolation, escapades, danger, good versus evil, technology gone awry, confined, alien invasion ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The X from Outer Space (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with ...
Style: daikaiju, grindhouse, suspense, cult classic, retro ...
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, ufo, mars, alien invasion, spacesuit, alien, spaceship, dinosaur, moon base, rescue ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Heatstroke (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An ex-model teams up with a soldier to thwart aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, computer animated
Plot: dinosaur, soldier, heroes, dangerous animal, escapades, evil alien, danger, apocalypse, space travel, space and aliens, gory, global warming ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space ...
Style: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, fast, scary ...
Plot: monster, martian, frankenstein, nasa, brain damage, alien monster, alien, alien invasion, mars, space monster, frankenstein's monster, spacesuit ...
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.5
 384
The Arrival (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old man, who has been near a fallen meteor, starts to get younger and younger, with a terrible thirst for blood.
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, space, vampire, special agent, elderly, feminism, imaginary, supernatural, space and aliens, chases and races, chase, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
 4.8
 727
Lifeform (1996)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to ...
Style: independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: mars, alien, monster, egg, military, soldier, martian, space, killer animal, nasa, alien encounter, benign alien ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.4
 611
Grey Skies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological
Plot: alien, alien abduction, alien encounter, survival, isolation, danger, woods, escapades, abduction, ufo, violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Gallery of Horror (1967)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock", The Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts, and are warned by the town doctor of the ...
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, classic horror, independent film, serious ...
Plot: zombie, vampire, werewolf, undead, omnibus, dead, lycanthropy, witch, wizards and magicians, obsessive quest, good versus evil, vengeance ...
Time: year 1967, 19th century, 60s
Place: new england, england, london, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Slime People (1963)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
Style: serious, scary, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Plot: mutant, monster, battles, chaos, heroes, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, save the world, apocalypse, fog, evil alien ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.6
 409
Night Feeders (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Four deer hunters encounter a horde of carnivorous aliens in a remote countryside and fight to survive the night.
Style: rough, bleak, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: evil alien, gory, survival, animal life, alien encounter, danger, supernatural, escapades, violence, monster, alien, ufo ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.8
 767
Evilution (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, alien encounter, save the world, survival, apocalypse, danger, soldier, escapades, chaos, imaginary, chases and races, mentally unstable ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, futuristic, independent film
Plot: apocalypse, changing the past or future, survival, save the world, danger, chaos, heroes, mutant, post apocalypse, space and aliens, distopia, epidemic ...
Time: future, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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