Movies like Nightwish
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Nightwish (1989)
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, weird, offbeat
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, professor, night, nightmare, abandoned mine, body horror, female nudity, tough guy, muscleman, beefcake, male objectification, graduate student, hallucination, space and aliens, graphic violence, estate, nude, alien, seance, supernatural power, parapsychology, mutant animal, student ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and psychotronic films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, graphic violence, gory, monster and ghost mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nightwish: Restless Souls (1998), Psychic Experiment (2010), Dark Circles (2013), Shadowzone (1990), Paranormal Incident (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Newlyweds spend the night at a haunted mansion, having had car trouble. When the wife disappears, the husband's rich father sends a team of parapsychologists to get the wife back. Except for the leader, each of the team has a special power... ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic
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teens
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found footage, mental institution, supernatural, haunted house, survival, isolation, haunted by the past, confined, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, suspense, ghost ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, psychological
Plot:
haunted house, haunted by the past, ghost, confined, murder, isolation, supernatural, time warp, paranormal, trapped in a building, group sex, killer child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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48%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
Style:
dark, campy, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An otherwordly perpetrator has been attacking female virgins in Manhattan. As Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to identify the strange organic materials found on the women, the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital.
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
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43%
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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:
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Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, ghost, obsession, technology gone awry, inventions and discoveries, family relations, disorder, car accident, death, computer, machine ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
After a strange meteor destroys a communications satellite and crashes into Tampa Bay, a sickly looking fish finds itself the meal of a beautiful nightclub bartender named Val. Moments later, as the bar is closed and locked tight, the infected Val ...
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Audience:
teens
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38%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Style:
dark, scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the ...
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apocalypse, zombie, supernatural, chaos, graphic violence, escapades, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, suspense, fear, disaster, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
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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 ...
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scary, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic
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zombie, supernatural, filmmaking, haunted house, ghost, estate, curses spells and rituals, house, supernatural power, actor, suspense, exploitation ...
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
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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
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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 ⇓
32%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
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scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
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boys' night, teens
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
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Plot:
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usa, south dakota, san francisco
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Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ...
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush ...
Style:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the grave.
Style:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The plot concerns an American astronaut, Frank Douglas, who mysteriously disappears from his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. The vanished astronaut is apparently replaced by or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid monster. A team of ...
Style:
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
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