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The Asphyx (1972)
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The Asphyx (1972)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Style: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, psychotronic, retro, grindhouse, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: afterlife, obsession, mad scientist, ghost, danger, experiment gone awry, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, immortal, macabre, paranormal, heavy metal, experiment, zombie, serial killer, legends and myths, escapades, imaginary, good versus evil, supernatural romance, disorder, deadly creature, spider, cat ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, victorian
Keyword: british horror

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Most similar movies to The Asphyx

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychotronic films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, imaginary, deadly creature, escapades and monster mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Asphyx: Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971), Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), The Haunting (1963), Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003), The Ghostmaker (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's ...
Style: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, supernatural, monster, mental institution, psychopath, experiment gone awry, danger, zombie, deadly creature, violence, murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1930s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel ...
Style: gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, queer horror, serious ...
Plot: mad scientist, jekyll and hyde, gender bending, split personality, serial killer, gender bender, transformation, transsexual, supernatural, murder, femme fatale, prostitute ...
Time: victorian era, year 1971, 1880s, 19th century, 70s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min.
Story: This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad doctor, blind man, monster, reanimation, scientist, doctor, murder, mad scientist, supernatural, deadly creature, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 42K
The Haunting (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, black and white ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, lesbian, mansion, ghost, research, obsession, haunted by the past, disappearance, old dark house, psychic ...
Time: 1940s, 19th century, 20th century, year 1963, 1870s ...
Place: new england, boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Peter Hertz tells a woman the past stories about the puppets, but she secretly wants to kill them.
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: puppet master, puppet, supernatural, doll, ghost, serial killer, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, imaginary ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Ghostmaker (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, curses spells and rituals, death, deathtrap, supernatural, buddies, survival, danger, violence, college, dreaming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.2
 1K
Saint Sinner (2002)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating
Plot: time travel, priest, police detective, demon, psychopath, time machine, serial killer, ghost, on the run, supernatural ability, deadly creature, clergy ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.9
 3K
Freakdog (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, medical horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hospital, murder, ghost, experiment gone awry, revenge, supernatural, mentally challenged, mental institution, femme fatale, morgue, disorder, doctors and patients ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 4.0
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Voodoo Moon (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Voodoo Moon takes place in the mid-west United States, where a demonic figure murders the entire population of a small town, save for one young boy and his sister. Twenty years later, the boy has been consumed with trying to track the devil down and ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, good versus evil, supernatural, imaginary, survival, obsession, supernatural ability, deadly creature, danger, siblings relations, experiment gone awry, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: skeleton, monster, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, laboratory, corpse, scientist, 666, insane asylum, body horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 4K
The Bride (1985)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
Style: psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: frankenstein, laboratory, mad scientist, obsession, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, deadly creature, dangerous attraction, zombie, human experiment, friendship ...
Time: year 1985
Place: budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
I, Frankenstein (2014)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Style: gothic, stylized, scary, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: frankenstein, supernatural, immortality, gargoyle, frankenstein's monster, superhero, monster, deadly creature, immortal, save the world, superpower, transformation ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 1790s, 21st century
Place: melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Riddles of the Sphinx (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An astronomer and a cryptographer uncover a series of ancient tunnels, unwittingly unleashing a deadly Sphinx. In order to trap the Sphinx back in its tomb and stop impending destruction, our explorers must solve a series of complicated and possibly ...
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, entertaining
Plot: pyramid, sphinx, save the day, archaeology, good versus evil, deadly creature, riddles and clues, supernatural, danger, tomb, curses spells and rituals, ancient egypt ...
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
At the Earth's Core (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, classic horror, retro, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, dinosaur, giant monster, lost world, kaiju, cave, space travel, good versus evil, cave woman, steampunk, sword and sorcery, underground ...
Time: victorian era, prehistoric times, year 1976, 19th century, prehistory
Place: wales, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Ghost from the Machine (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Wildly grief-stricken over the accidental death of his parents, young techno-geek Cody (Sasha Andreev) cobbles together an electrical device that he hopes will bring the spirits of mom and dad back from beyond the grave. But the machine's power ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, scary, captivating, tense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, obsession, technology gone awry, danger, inventions and discoveries, family relations, disorder, car accident, death, computer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Monster of Terror (1965)
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim ...
Style: gothic, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, grindhouse ...
Plot: mad scientist, monster, supernatural, mutant, experiment gone awry, old dark house, paranoid, danger, cosmic horror, haunted house, fiancee, cthulhu ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.1
 570
Demon Warriors (2007)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Opapatika is a special power that makes one become practically invincible. The power remains alive so long as that person is remains alive. In this film, five Opapatikas, each with their own unique power, are brought together. They meet in the ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, inspirational ...
Plot: good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, danger, supernatural, medieval, superhuman powers, police detective, rivalry, showdown, gory, teaching the ways of the world, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
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 1K
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 ⇓
19%
Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, gothic, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, scientist, paranormal, mad doctor, obsession, mad scientist, literary, mutant, disorder, supernatural, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Perfect Creature (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
Style: exciting, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: vampire, danger, supernatural, good versus evil, imaginary, gory, serial killer, epidemic, heroic mission, legends and myths, escapades, church ...
Time: jurassic, 60s, 20th century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, monster, mad doctor, murder, supernatural, decapitation, guillotine, frankenstein's monster, occult, living dead, woman with a gun ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: split personality, mad scientist, transformation, mental illness, murder, violence spree, jekyll and hyde, paranoid schizophrenia, mad doctor, mythical creature, macabre, mutant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
 3.0
 996
Brain of Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, psychological, serious ...
Plot: mad scientist, acid, body horror, monster, creature feature, macabre, cognitive science, exploitation, paranormal, brain transplant, voyeur, danger ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Cellar Dweller (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In the 1930s a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
Style: grindhouse, retro, psychotronic, independent film, surprise ending ...
Plot: cartoonist, monster, supernatural, fire, basement, ghoul, creature, supernatural horror, killer animal, creature feature, werewolf, demon ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh is unleashed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, surprise ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mummy, pharaoh, reincarnation, supernatural power, serial killer, ancient egypt, danger, good versus evil, scientist, curse, investigation, psychic ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, year 1948
Place: egypt, london, middle east, africa, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 3K
Riverworld (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, reincarnation, rebelliousness, imaginary, supernatural, escapades, danger, fighting the system, rivalry, space wars, time travel, dystopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness (2004)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious ...
Plot: gargoyle, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, church, priest, deadly creature, danger, imaginary, special agent, gory, escapades, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Prometheus Project (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Plot: zombie, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, danger, mad scientist, laboratory, supernatural, gory, captivity, frankenstein's monster, hospital, frankenstein ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, terrifying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, desert, time travel, good versus evil, zombie, living dead, siblings relations, heroic mission, riddles and clues, gory, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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