Movies like The Spirit Is Willing

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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. Another of 'exploitation king' William Castle's supernatural films, this one is studded with familiar character actors including Harvey Lembeck, Mary Wickes, John McGiver, Doodles Weaver, Jesse White and John ("Gomez Addams") Astin.
Style: grindhouse, horror comedy, scary, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: ghost, haunted house, teenager, maid, supernatural power, vacation gone wrong, supernatural, family relations, missing child, fall in love, teenage life, danger, family problems, family in danger, master and servant, domestic disturbance, curses spells and rituals, couples, meat cleaver
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: usa, new england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, humorous, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about supernatural, ghost, haunted house, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power and deadly mostly in Horror, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The Spirit Is Willing: Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018), Dead on Appraisal (2014), Paranormal Movie (2013), Playhouse (2003), The Slaughter (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin’s classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, entertaining, satirical, horror comedy
Plot: ghost, hotel, spirit, friendship, friends, secret, satire, haunted, teamwork, supernatural, grandparents
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100%
Dead on Appraisal (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Real estate agent John Dante has a problem. He's stuck with a house he can't sell. Despite his best efforts, he can't seem to overcome the house's past and the macabre tales that precede it in this haunting anthology. In the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, tense, anthology ...
Plot: haunted by the past, danger, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, ghost, realtor, dark humor, survival, little creatures, eye, creature, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Paranormal Movie (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man, long haunted by the paranormal, captures on camera the horror and hilarity he and his beautiful girlfriend encounter after moving into a new home.
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, spoof, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: silly humor, supernatural, goofy hero, disorder, ghost, danger, haunted house, found footage, paranormal phenomena, pop culture, farce, paranormal activity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Playhouse (2003)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After years hiding in the shadows, the ancient ghosts of an old Pittsburgh theater make their presence known once again.
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, detective
Plot: haunted house, theater, zombie, ghost, supernatural, investigation, disorder, gory, goofy hero, haunted, decapitation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Slaughter (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A turn of the century ritual to raise the feminine evil goes horribly awry and leaves a she demon dormant on the ceremonial grounds. Sixty years later a young couple moves into a house built on the ancient grounds and their daughter's murder ...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: gory, zombie, friendship, supernatural ability, danger, ghost, haunted house, mentally unstable, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, machete, human sacrifice ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Where Got Ghost? (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 102 min.
Story: "Where Got Ghost?" is a Horror-Comedy Chinese Movie. 3-in-1 Horror tales told in a good old comedy fashion.
Style: scary, not serious, humorous, bleak
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, danger, silly humor, imaginary, strangled to death, strangulation, death by strangulation, dead soldier
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Scream Team (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty ...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, exciting, horror comedy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, horror for children
Plot: ghost, halloween, supernatural, youth, afterlife, father son relationship, single parent, rescue, imaginary, disgraced, curses spells and rituals, young heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
Style: grindhouse, absurd, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beach party, ghost, monster, gorilla, mummy, motorcycle, creature, meme, rock and roll, treasure, biker, inheritance ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Ghost Team One (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.
Style: humorous, parody, not serious, scary, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, found footage, supernatural, danger, buddies, exorcism, rivalry, haunted house, halloween, satire, demon, violent content ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Ghost of Goodnight Lane (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When the staff inside a renovated film studio finds a co-worker dead one morning, the pieces of a forty year puzzle add up to an angry ghost who has let the last person step inside her house. But will they ever get out alive?
Style: suspenseful, slasher, captivating, tense, humorous ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, paranormal activity, survival, investigation, danger, haunted by the past, murder, violent content, haunted house, puzzle, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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DeadTectives (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A team of reality TV paranormal investigators go to Mexico's most haunted house in the pursuit of better ratings. However, when the true dark secrets of the mansion begin to reveal themselves, the hapless team quickly discover that this house ...
Style: sexy, not serious, bleak, funny, satirical ...
Plot: ghost, danger, friendship, supernatural, team, relationships, paranormal investigation, stupidity, demon, supernatural power, disorder, farce ...
Place: mexico, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
An American Ghost Story (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, danger, uncover truth, curses spells and rituals, writer's life, supernatural, haunted, fear, afterlife, violence, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Behind the Walls (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Years it has waited, now someone's moved in. Through the eyes of the evil within we witness a broken family desperately seeking a new beginning, in a new home, but this house lives, watches and wants them to stay, forever.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, dark, psychological
Plot: house, family in danger, haunted house, supernatural power, ghost, supernatural, paranormal investigation, evil force, monster, relocation, boy strangling
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Dark Circles (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When new parents Alex and Penny retreat from the city and move into a place outside town, the stress and massive sleep-deprivation caused by their infant has both of them seeing things in the house that may or may not exist. Persistent sightings of ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, danger, couples, isolation, haunted, exorcism, death, paranormal investigation, family in danger, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: supernatural, filmmaking, haunted house, ghost, estate, danger, curses spells and rituals, house, supernatural power, actor, trapped in a building, zombie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, missing child, occult, supernatural ability, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, danger, family problems, doll, puppet ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Another Evil (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After encountering a ghost in his family's vacation home, Dan and his wife Mary hire an "industrial-grade exorcist" named Os to get rid of the beings.
Style: mumblecore, horror comedy, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, artist, ghost hunter, haunted house, exorcism, exorcist, old dark house, curses spells and rituals, fear, supernatural horror, gadget ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 2.6
 602
Ghost Game (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: 7 Friends go out to cabin for a weekend of relaxing and find a game that should not be opened!
Style: scary, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: ghost, board game, supernatural ability, danger, supernatural, canoe, flashback, camping, cigarette smoking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, witch, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Haunted Trailer (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two goofy hick brothers (Elvis and Aaron), their crazy redneck Momma and sexy sister (Prissy) must exorcise their mobile home of an ancient demon set free to fulfill an end-times prophecy, with the help of a low rent TV evangelist named Reverend ...
Style: psychotronic, humorous, scary, disturbing, bleak
Plot: poltergeist, demon, murder, victim, exorcism, peril, curses spells and rituals, ghost, mission, deadly creature, vengeance, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Late Fee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!
Style: anthology, slasher, scary, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: halloween, supernatural, gory, murder, isolation, danger, youth, terrorism, stalking, store, teenage life, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
House of the Damned (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A woman uses witchcraft to try to steal her daughter's youth.
Style: black and white, independent film, scary, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: zombie, ghost, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, rivalry, danger, supernatural ability, gays and lesbians, mentally unstable, race against time, satire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Show Me the Ghost (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Best friends ‘Hodu’ and ‘Yeji’ are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, ‘Hodu’ luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. ‘Yeji’, who has been kicked out of her parents’ house, also stays there ...
Style: semi serious, psychotronic, humorous, scary, tense ...
Plot: ghost, exorcism, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, mission, paranormal, heroes, family relations, evil, friends, rescue, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 2K
The Hazing (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of "hazing" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, bleak, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, supernatural, supernatural ability, murder, gory, survival, psychopath, danger, youth, curses spells and rituals, student life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Untitled Horror Movie (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Set on computer screens and found footage style content, the movie follows six actors who decide to shoot their own horror movie as their hit TV show is on the brink of cancellation. In their search for a plot, they unintentionally summon a spirit ...
Style: suspense, horror comedy, psychotronic, feel good, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, found footage, supernatural power, evil spirit, ghost, demon, vengeance, paranormal, killings, chase, exorcism, characters in danger ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hide and Creep (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, humorous ...
Plot: supernatural, danger, gory, small town, zombie, fear, woman with a gun, nudity, violent content, store, small town life, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Anando Brahma (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An NRI enlists the help of his cop-friend to sell off his ancestral home, but later hears rumours of it being haunted. Unwilling to let go of the property at a throwaway price, he asks a team of four quirky guys to spend a night in the house and ...
Style: humorous, suspense, disturbing, tense, scary ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, paranormal, violence, paranormal phenomena, peril, curses spells and rituals, chase, rescue, paranormal investigation, deadly creature, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, scary, entertaining, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, female werewolf, family life, parents and children, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, dangerous animal, animal life, suburbs, woman in danger, teenager ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Is there any possible downside to accepting an invitation from Vincent Price to spend an evening in a creepy mansion that was built on something called “Haunted Hill?” If so, Mike, Kevin and Bill couldn’t find it! In fact they were so eager to ...
Style: entertaining, suspenseful, scary, humorous, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural power, revenge, peril, chase, evil, society, supernatural ability, rescue, mission, death, hunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Followers (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A struggling social media influencer discovers the house he shares is haunted. The ghost brings him and his friends fame and fortune, but with deadly consequences.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, social media, demon, paranormal phenomena, loss, mission, death, rescue, heroes, youth, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Daisy Derkins, Dogsitter of the Damned (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A hot young college girl takes a gig dogsitting for the mysterious SILAS KILLINGTON. But hours have gone by, and she hasn't seen the dog. And the news of an escaped serial killer has her on edge. She calls some friends over, but their Ouija ...
Style: scary, humorous, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, monster, ghost, murder, society, obsessive quest, victim, rescue, youth, characters in danger, paranormal phenomena, good versus evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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