Movies like Doomwatch 1972

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Doomwatch (1972)
 5.5
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Doomwatch (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Style: psychotronic, depressing, independent film, scary, mind bending, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Plot: monster, folk horror, virus, infected, environmental, contamination, european, lost soul, fish, mutant, heroes, supernatural, gory, escapades, danger, social relations, environmentalism, violence spree, dog, village, school, police officer, investigation, scientist, water ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychotronic films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, escapades, monster, deadly creature and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Doomwatch: Island of the Burning Damned (1967), Thirst (1979), Day of the Animals (1977), Bug (1975), Nothing But the Night (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Island of the Burning Damned (1967)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: island, alien, scientist, danger, supernatural, isolation, love triangle, investigation, monster, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, ufo ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.8
 2K
Thirst (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to ...
Style: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, serious ...
Plot: vampire, kidnapping, occult, supernatural, blood, brainwashing, exploitation, nurse, swimming pool, religion, paranormal, macabre ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Day of the Animals (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, scary, natural horror, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wilderness, dog, camping, animal attack, bear, creature feature, snake, hawk, wolf attack, killed by a dog, attempted rape, survival ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.2
 3K
Bug (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more ...
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, perverse, scary ...
Plot: disaster, animal attack, creature feature, cockroach, killer animal, earthquake, monster, insect, fire, mutant, tiny, freak ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Nothing But the Night (1973)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. However after a mysterious accident of a bus with the last three trustees and 30 orphan kids in it, police colonel Bingham starts investigating. ...
Style: gothic horror, classic horror, terrifying, detective, independent film ...
Plot: folk horror, murder, supernatural, evil child, mad scientist, hypnosis, darkness, island, bus, orphan, investigation, suicide ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Murder by Phone (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Style: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird ...
Plot: canuxploitation, murder, revenge, machine, technology, exploitation, redheaded woman, sexual euphemism, man kills a woman, elevator, assassination attempt, friendship between men ...
Time: year 1982
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Fear in the Night (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It took Penny Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, pastoral, noir, psychological ...
Plot: murder, mental disorder, woman with a gun, feminist, nervous breakdown, hanging, boarding school, newlywed, violent content, family problems, couples, mind game ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ancient Martian spaceship is unearthed in London, and proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Style: suspense, classic horror, talky, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: alien invasion, supernatural, monster, mars, martian, imagination, macabre, spacecraft, folk horror, ufo, space and aliens, androids and robots ...
Time: year 1967, prehistory, 60s
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 6.1
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Alligator (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Style: scary, stylized, suspense, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, sewer, mutation, scientist, hunter, creature feature, urban legend, monster, toxic, animal attack, giant animal, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, intense, harsh, natural horror ...
Plot: spider, creature feature, death, tarantula, animal attack, monster, plague, amateur detective, chaos, family in danger, dangerous animal, investigation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Horror on Snape Island (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Style: slasher, gothic horror, sexy, classic horror, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: male nudity, lighthouse, fog, treasure, zombie, underground, relic hunter, stoner, occult, 666, lost soul, feral man ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.
Style: suspense, classic horror, rough, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, experiment, living dead, judiciary, mad doctor, reanimation, cave, murder, human experiment, laboratory, village, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1961
Place: cornwall, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Monster of Terror (1965)
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim ...
Style: gothic, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, grindhouse ...
Plot: mad scientist, monster, supernatural, mutant, experiment gone awry, old dark house, paranoid, danger, cosmic horror, haunted house, fiancee, cthulhu ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.5
 6K
Prophecy (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature feature, monster, toxic, contamination, bear, creature, environmentalism, mutant, danger, animal life, rivalry, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Blood Glacier (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: mutant animal, dangerous animal, scientist, creature feature, survival, danger, isolation, supernatural, dog, creature, winter, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps, austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.2
 7K
Eden Log (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and ...
Style: psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, isolation, memory loss, heroic mission, captivity, rivalry, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, life is a bitch, race against time ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 8K
Frogs (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason ...
Style: surprise ending, natural horror, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot: swamp, nature, creature feature, leech, bird attack, island, monster, dysfunctional family, revenge, disaster, animal attack, killer animal ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.7
 29K
The Bay (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: infection, parasite, found footage, disaster, virus, plague, disease, ecological disaster, apocalypse, infected, danger, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Relic (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, splatter ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, human versus monster, supernatural, museum, deadly creature, gory, beast, creature, violence, fear, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: chicago, brazil, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.6
 3K
The Reeds (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boat, supernatural, survival, curse, danger, deadly creature, psychopath, gory, curses spells and rituals, redneck, time loop, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.5
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The Boogens (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, creature, gory, danger, social relations, experiment gone awry, escapades, creature feature, winter, snow, monster ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Style: scary, slasher, natural horror, perverse, spoof ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, shark, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, fish, underwater, scuba diving, sea, gory, island ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Dead Outside (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: isolation, zombie, virus, bereavement, plague, danger, gory, chaos and mayhem, life is a bitch, survival, mutant, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Seven Dead in the Cat's Eye (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Style: gothic, erotic, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, investigation, sadism, small town, supernatural, whodunit, danger, curses spells and rituals, apocalypse, gory, mental illness, darkness ...
Time: 70s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.2
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Scourge (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
Plot: parasite, survival, violence spree, supernatural, danger, small town, deadly creature, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, small town life, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Borderlands (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
Style: scary, demonic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, folk horror, church, catholic priest, religions or cults, supernatural, suicide, uncover truth, paganism, clergy, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
 6K
Shock Waves (1977)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
Style: scary, psychotronic, horror comedy, apocalyptic, creepy ...
Plot: nazi, swastika, ship, mad scientist, military, exploitation, infected, undead, world war two, zombie, shipwreck, nazi occultism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.2
 839
Bottom Feeder (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: mutant, tunnel, monster, creature feature, danger, dangerous animal, supernatural, chaos, creature, murder, scientist, survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Night of the Lepus (1972)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, absurd ...
Plot: giant animal, mutation, monster, gene manipulation, creature feature, experiment gone awry, giant monster, chaos, dangerous animal, mad scientist, danger, heroes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Island of Terror (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, black and white, classic horror ...
Plot: monster, creature, isolation, island, tentacle, laboratory, creature feature, giant monster, underground, exploitation, macabre, european ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: ireland, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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