Movies like Mr. Sardonicus
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Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...
Style:
slasher, scary, gothic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film, weird
Plot:
castle, leech, disfigured face, monster, macabre, torture, suspense, baron, disfigurement, disfigured, doctor, lottery ticket, masked man, grave, escapades, rivalry, haunted by the past, woman in danger, physical appearance, master villain, curses spells and rituals, cemetery, fog, grave robber, medical experiment ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and atmospheric films with plots about danger, supernatural, deadly, suspense, monster, macabre and gory mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Mr. Sardonicus: Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Count Dracula (1970), Premature Burial (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Dracula (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, suspense, insanity, investigation, vengeance, castle, monster, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity, dishonesty, haunted by the past ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, 14th century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
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gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
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dracula, vampire, supernatural, female vampire, monster, suspense, goth, paranormal, sexy female vampire, insanity, woman in danger, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, transylvania, england, romania, london
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68%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor ...
Style:
gothic, psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
torture device, snake, supernatural, vengeance, macabre, revenge, witch, german history, night, cult, monster, zombie ...
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67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Style:
mind bending, psychological, bleak, gothic horror, atmospheric ...
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, tomb, death, fear, eccentric family, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, cemetery, buried alive, wedding, mental illness ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, murder, medieval, macabre, revenge, suspense, plague, good versus evil, life & death, brutality, tragic villain, sacrifice ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Films like The Unholy
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, reincarnation, supernatural, bloodsucker, macabre, countryside, village, destiny, stalking, haunted by the past, woman in danger ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
deal with the devil, destiny, physical appearance, curses spells and rituals, escapades, supernatural, obsession, obsessive quest, aging, supernatural ability, rivalry, manipulation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, slasher, mind blowing, phantasmagoric ...
Plot:
vampire, zombie, lake, ghost, haunted house, cemetery, hearing voices, boat, farmhouse, mental illness, supernatural, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cave, survival, suspense, research, adventurer, rescue, serial killer, confined, escapades, chaos, wilderness, isolation ...
Place:
russia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, bleak, enigmatic, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, loneliness, death, insanity, goth, solitude, surrealism, obsession, transformation, life & death, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, 1920s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
romania, bulgaria, europe, black sea, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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:
dark fairy tale, scary, serious, psychotronic, twist ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, surprise ending ...
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teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, who done it, woman in danger, summer camp, siblings relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, youth, rivalry ...
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44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, demon, possession, hospital, violence, priest, investigation, macabre, suspense, demonic possession, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alex Grant is a troubled young woman, 20 years ago, she witnessed her mother get murdered by a carnival clown. She has nightmares of the clown - Louis Seagram. First a kind man then turned bad and also tried to rape Alex's mother. Alex fears ...
Style:
slasher, surprise ending, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
tunnel, missing husband, supernatural, missing person, investigator, sister sister relationship, grief, ghost, evil force, woman in danger, hopes, pregnancy ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Films like Jacob's Ladder
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, natural horror, serious ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, beast, who done it, monster, private detective, investigation, curse, uncover truth, mysterious character, murder, deadly creature, track down ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, sad, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, haunted house, seance, imaginary friend, death, basement, suspense, young girl, evil child, macabre ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural, obsession, monster, suspense, megalomaniac, human nature, escapades, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, filmmaker ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, berlin germany, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the 1920 film were superimposed to properly replicate the original. Francis relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare. Their ...
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric, surreal, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, mad scientist, manipulation, supernatural ability, investigation, police detective, wizards and magicians, rivalry, mad doctor, zombie, suspense, hospital ...
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 60s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies like The Rite
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, dracula, suspense, vengeance, stalking, master villain, escapades, rivalry, good versus evil, chase, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, england, florida, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Style:
scary, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, voodoo, psychology, macabre, nightmare, disability, insanity, uncover truth, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
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Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become ...
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Plot:
haunted by the past, monster, freak, macabre, captive, death, cannibalism, violence, murder, blindness, castle, prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the recently acquired journals of Texan Dale S. Rogers, this vintage horror tale debunks history books to tell the veracious, harrowing story of a rural Texas community whose residents were terrified for years by a mysterious creature ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, avant garde ...
Plot:
beast, bigfoot, missing child, vengeance, dangerous animal, deadly creature, unemployment, farm, urban legend, monster, creature, giant monster ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, cult, hotel, paranormal investigation, paranormal, fear, paranormal activity, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time:
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Place:
new england, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Movies like Dead Silence
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:
suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, gothic ...
Plot:
suspense, curse, obsession, vengeance, supernatural, serial killer, zombie, brother brother relationship, monster, murderer, disfigurement, edgar allan poe ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas. It focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while detailing certain sightings of the monster. This title was a drive-in B movie favorite for ...
Style:
scary, road movie, frightening, campy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, surreal, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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32%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate ...
Style:
gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, supernatural, unfulfilled love, mysterious character, couple relations, terminal illness, chaos, couples, deadly creature, betrayal, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, transylvania, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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