Movies like The Old Dark House
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The Old Dark House (1963)
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
Style:
psychotronic, parody, surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, suspense, house, haunted house, murder, inheritance, insanity, dysfunctional family, isolation, bomb, country house, twin brother, villainess, country estate, quicksand, trapdoor, eccentricity, gambling, fight, dead man, assassin, camp, lion, mansion ...
Place:
united kingdom
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Most similar movies to The Old Dark House
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychotronic, scary and slasher films with plots about murder, suspense, supernatural, serial killer, blood, danger and death mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Old Dark House: The People Under the Stairs (1991), Burnt Offerings (1976), Homicidal (1961), The Shadow of the Cat (1961), Malevolent (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child abuse, serial killer, kidnapping, cannibalism, secret passageway, home invasion, disturbed individual, murder, cannibal, child in peril, rottweiler, haunted house ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
supernatural, afterlife, haunted house, psychosis, macabre, ghost, obsession, old woman, murder, family in danger, house, losing-it hero ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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79%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story centers around a murderous scheme to collect a rich inheritance. The object of murder is Miriam Webster, who is to share in the inheritance with her half brother Warren, who lives with his childhood guardian Helga in the mansion where ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, mute, psychopath, mysterious character, brother sister relationship, inheritance, vengeance, isolation, justice of the peace, childhood trauma, small town ...
Time:
60s
Place:
california, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths ...
Style:
psychotronic, slasher
Plot:
cat, inheritance, suspense, house, conspirator, hysterical woman, disposing of a dead body, swamp, guilty conscience, conspiracy, murder, niece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
Style:
psychotronic, mysterious, suspenseful, dark, stylized ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, hallucination, mental illness, supernatural power, medium, friendship, cruelty, car accident, family business ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Victor McShane disappeared on Blanchard Hill in the spring of 1985. No one knows what happened to him... Twenty years later, a group of campers take a hike on Blanchard, unaware that a killer is on the loose, killing people without mercy. Two ...
Style:
slasher, horror spoof
Plot:
serial killer, haunted house, suspense, gonzo, slasher spoof, satire, female nudity, police, drugs, murder, revenge, lesbian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, brutal, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, game, suspense, rite, satanic cult, family curse, ritual, wedding, murder, hide and seek, fiancee, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, year 1989, 80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Style:
psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
ghost, murder, death, supernatural, supernatural power, torment, dead, haunted house, supernatural horror, suspense, house
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, twisted, gothic horror, gothic ...
Plot:
house, writers, haunted house, supernatural, black cat, twists and turns, suspense, guilty pleasure, mysticism, creature, murder, estate ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college student, murder, haunted house, serial murder, brutality, serial killer, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, suspense, ghost ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychopath, holiday, haunted by the past, family in danger, supernatural, ghost, rivalry, small town life, who done it ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, experiment gone awry, survival, confined, supernatural, psychopath, demonic possession, escapades, isolation, murder, laboratory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychotronic, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
supernatural, camp, haunted house, paranormal, violence, ghost, society, death, vengeance, killings, rescue, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but ...
Style:
scary, gothic, suspenseful, campy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, zombie, murder, reincarnation, supernatural, vengeance, afterlife, cat, monster, infidelity, experiment gone awry, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
British remake of the classic comedy thriller play. A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Style:
psychotronic, queer horror, erotic, slasher, scary ...
Plot:
lesbian, house, mysticism, haunted house, black cat, murder, power relations, family problems, domestic disturbance, supernatural ability, investigation, ghost ...
Time:
70s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1934
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Ready or Not similar movies
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style:
surprise ending, parody, funny, humorous, mind bending ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
murder, butler, whodunit, investigation, multiple suspects, twists and turns, mansion, murder mystery, mystery killer, maid, blackmail, mind game ...
Time:
year 1954, 50s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, home invasion, serial killer, survival, murder, survival horror, masked killer, fear, hostage, confined, macabre, torture ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, twist ending, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, psychic, paranoia, hypnosis, murder, clairvoyance, suspense, supernatural horror, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, suspense, haunted by the past, old dark house, violence, hotel, neighbor, woman in danger, teenage life, hollywood ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, vampire, supernatural, murder, cult, suspense, strong violent content, secret organization, brutality, investigation, supernatural power, psychopath
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Movies similar to The Others
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, cynical, scary ...
Plot:
wedding, widow, decapitation, black cat, corpse, exploitation, supernatural, dark humor, family relations, cons and scams, inheritance, cemetery ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, curse, estate, nightmare comes true, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, paranormal investigation, suspense, abduction, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. The ...
Style:
psychotronic, surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
serial killer, house, suspense, lgbt, nude, police psychologist, desire, police detective, mental breakdown, car, unknown killer, psychological trauma ...
Place:
ireland, switzerland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, experimental, psychotronic ...
Plot:
zombie, isolation, small town, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, ghost, suspense, mentally unstable, dealing with death, resort, small town life, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Style:
scary, slasher, sadistic, splatter, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, murder, electric chair, vengeance, police investigation, obsession, evil, reincarnation, suspense, monster, killer ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, sexy, campy, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, mental illness, suspense, hotel, characters murdered one by one, accidental death, insanity, depression, twists and turns, nude ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
psychopath, split personality, motel, murder, hotel, parents and children, isolation, eccentric family, serial killer, mental illness, secret, psycho ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent by Keith Kossett, ...
Style:
gothic, noir, slasher, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
hagsploitation, mental disorder, murderer, cemetery, supernatural, paranormal, love story, twists and turns, seduction, suspense, suicide attempt, impostor ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style:
scary, psychological, tense, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doll, supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, suspense, plot twist, nanny, violence, murder, mansion, governess, brutality ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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