Movies like The Spirit Is Willing
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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
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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:
scary, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, missing child, fall in love, teenage life, family problems, family in danger, master and servant, domestic disturbance, curses spells and rituals, teenager, maid, supernatural power, vacation gone wrong, danger, meat cleaver
Time:
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 ghost, supernatural, danger, haunted house, curses spells and rituals, deadly and supernatural power mostly in Horror, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The Spirit Is Willing: Dead on Appraisal (2014), Paranormal Movie (2013), Where Got Ghost? (2009), Playhouse (2003), The Slaughter (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, tense, captivating, scary ...
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ghost, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, haunted house, realtor, dark humor, survival, monster, little creatures, real estate, danger, gore ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, psychotronic, horror spoof
Audience:
teens
Plot:
silly humor, supernatural, goofy hero, disorder, ghost, haunted house, paranormal phenomena, farce, pop culture, found footage, paranormal activity, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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73%
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, silly humor, strangulation, strangled to death, danger, death by strangulation, imaginary, dead soldier
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
114
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
Plot:
haunted house, theater, zombie, ghost, supernatural, investigation, disorder, goofy hero, police, decapitation, school, reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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:
zombie, ghost, supernatural ability, friendship, haunted house, mentally unstable, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, machete, human sacrifice, supernatural being, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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:
semi serious, scary, humorous, exciting
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, halloween, youth, supernatural, afterlife, disney, father son relationship, single parent, rescue, young heroes, curses spells and rituals, disgraced ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
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59%
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, haunted by the past, murder, graphic violence, puzzle, dark humor, haunted house, paranormal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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:
serious, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, scary
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, curses spells and rituals, writer's life, uncover truth, supernatural, fear, violence, afterlife, artists and showbiz, danger, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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:
parody, not serious, humorous, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, found footage, supernatural, buddies, exorcism, rivalry, haunted house, halloween, satire, demon, strong violent content, graphic violence ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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, couples, isolation, exorcism, death, family in danger, fear, paranormal investigation, bus, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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:
semi serious, scary, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
ghost, board game, supernatural, supernatural ability, witch, cousin cousin relationship, canoe, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, camping, friendship between men, humvee ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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:
absurd, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, campy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
beach party, ghost, monster, gorilla, biker, motorcycle, mummy, inheritance, haunted house, treasure, seance, silly humor ...
Time:
60s
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48%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A woman uses witchcraft to try to steal her daughter's youth.
Style:
scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot:
zombie, ghost, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, gays and lesbians, race against time, mentally unstable, supernatural, supernatural ability, rivalry, violence, good versus evil ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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:
bleak, disturbing, scary, humorous, psychotronic
Plot:
murder, poltergeist, hillbilly, demon, paranormal phenomena, deadly creature, revenge, peril, monster, supernatural power, curses spells and rituals, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The world's most beloved illusionist, armed with his team of oxymoron’s, embark on the freakiest, most adventurous paranormal investigation of all time. Terrorized at every turn by an unexplainable irregular patterns of mysterious ...
Style:
parody, scary, not serious, humorous, horror spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, investigation, supernatural, paranormal activity, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, satire, halloween, found footage, danger, broken nose
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Stitch follows the story of grieving parents as they cope with the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their best friends for healing advice, who lead them into the deep desert for a weekend ritual meant to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating
Plot:
ghost, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, death, violence, suspense, family problems, losing-it hero, dealing with death, disfigurement, daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, psychotronic
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, filmmaking, haunted house, ghost, estate, curses spells and rituals, house, supernatural power, actor, suspense, exploitation ...
Time:
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Place:
utah, usa
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42%
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:
humorous, captivating, scary, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
exorcism, ghost, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, demon, paranormal, society, paranormal phenomena, rivalry, supernatural, peril, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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, psychotronic, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
paranormal investigation, ghost, haunted house, team, friendship, supernatural, relationships, stupidity, demon, domestic disturbance, supernatural power, farce ...
Place:
mexico, kyoto japan
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 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, bleak, psychotronic, humorous, disturbing ...
Plot:
haunted house, monster, ghost, murder, chase, loss, revenge, paranormal, rivalry, violence, curses spells and rituals, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When her possessive high school boyfriend dies in a gruesome accident, Fern Petersen's life is thrown into turmoil. Things go from bad to worse when he returns as a love-sick ghost to kill her so they can be together for eternity.
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
ghost, decapitation, fear, murder, chase, revenge, suspense, violence, death, demon, supernatural power, loss ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, paranormal phenomena, rescue, exorcism, paranormal investigation, violence, murder, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, death, paranormal ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Landlord is the story of Tyler, the unfortunate young proprietor of a demon-haunted apartment building. While finding tenants has never been a problem for Tyler, keeping them alive long enough to pay rent is. No matter how nicely Tyler asks, he ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, gang, on the run, dishonesty, police corruption, pregnancy, human sacrifice, demon, vampire, pets, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, dark, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family in danger, family problems, family relations, parents and children, couples, legends and myths, killer child, child, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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36%
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 ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Wendy, her husband Dan and their kids have just moved to the small town of Stull, Kansas, where Dan is the new pastor. But in this sleepy community of friendly neighbors, a horrific series of occurrences awaits them: Their teenage daughter is being ...
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Plot:
supernatural, family in danger, small town, family relations, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults, social relations, evil, religion, small town life, ghost, house ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
ghost, curse, afterlife, supernatural, haunted house, woman in danger, haunted by the past, psychopath, domestic disturbance, supernatural ability, vampire, mysterious character ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping with her life at the hands of her mentally ill sister Veronica, Monica, with the help of her Mother, Marion, has taken great measures to ensure her safety, including changing her face and relocating to the South. Six years ...
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Time:
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Place:
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