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The Norliss Tapes (1973)
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The Norliss Tapes (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
Style: atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, creepy, classic horror, spooky, scary, tense, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, reporter, zombie, vampire, occult, ghost, serial killer, black magic, investigation, newspaper, wizards and magicians, stalking, supernatural ability, journalism, danger, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, witch, demon, murder, tomb, missing person, save the world ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, psychotronic and serious films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, curses spells and rituals, murder, supernatural ability and ghost mostly in Horror, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like The Norliss Tapes: Salem's Lot (1979), The Night Stalker (1972), The Night Strangler (1973), Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000), Baron Blood (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Salem's Lot (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
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Story: Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, psychological, scary ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, small town, stephen king, murder, writers, curse, mysterious character, missing person, adultery, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine, usa
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The Night Stalker (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He's hot on the trail, but ...
Style: scary, suspense, crime thriller, slasher, spooky ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, serial killer, occult, politics, dracula, reporter, villain, macabre, 666, stalker, murder ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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The Night Strangler (1973)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After being run out of Las Vegas, Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a ...
Style: scary, cult horror, spooky, slasher, serious ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, supernatural, occult, reporter, politics, investigative reporter, stalking, woman in danger, who done it, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 70s
Place: seattle, usa, las vegas, washington state, washington d.c.
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100%
Witchouse II: Blood Coven (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story: When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, small town, murder, demon, danger, escapades, rivalry, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, shopping mall, investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Baron Blood (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, scary, rough ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, castle, supernatural, witch, fear, good versus evil, murder, hanging, curse, torture chamber, auction ...
Time: year 1972, 15th century, 70s
Place: austria, europe
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the ...
Style: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Plot: occult, black magic, supernatural, coven, folk horror, satanism, witch, zombie, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1968, year 1929
Place: england, europe
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, female vampire, dracula, monster, vengeance, zombie, blood, crucifix, good versus evil, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time: year 1966, 1800s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Messiah of Evil (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Style: lovecraft, scary, atmospheric, creepy, classic horror ...
Plot: zombie, curse, undead, unhappy ending, folk horror, supernatural, cannibalism, vampire, occult, cannibal, virus, walking dead ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: los angeles, california
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37%
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An Amityville Poltergeist (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The terrifying tale of Amityville is back. When a young man encounters a weekend of horrors after taking a house sitting job from a spooky old woman.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Plot: poltergeist, ghost, haunted house, supernatural power, paranormal, rescue, vengeance, deadly creature, supernatural ability, exorcism, imaginary, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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11th Hour Cleaning (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.
Style: suspense, tense, scary, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: exorcism, murder, supernatural power, paranormal, peril, paranormal phenomena, demon, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, team, victim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Madres (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, tense, bleak ...
Plot: supernatural, evil, death, family relations, chase, paranormal, curses spells and rituals, demon, exorcism, deadly creature, killings, fear ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Abigail Haunting (2020)
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: suspense, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, paranormal investigation, vengeance, evil, paranormal, supernatural ability, peril, deadly creature, rescue, supernatural power, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Style: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, macabre, police, mute, dracula, woman in danger, chaos and mayhem, haunted house, missing person, couples, danger ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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The Fear Chamber (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A psychotic man likes to hunt down young women, then kill them and sell their organs. Detective Nick Stevens has been chasing this killer for years and has to overcome this personal demons in order to conquer this serial killer.
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Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Shatterbrain (1991)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
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Coven (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Five undergrad witches come together in order to perform a ritual to invoke the ancient powers of the witch Ashura.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, tense, scary, disturbing
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Time: 21st century
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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 ...
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Time: 90s
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Prison of the Dead (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
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Place: long island
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Dracula's Dog (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Russian soldiers accidentally unleash Dracula's servant, as well as his dog, during excavations in Romania. Together they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
Style: gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary ...
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36%
Before Someone Gets Hurt (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tim and his team are the rising stars of the ghost hunting game. One thing they all like better than a good haunt is a great prank. When the team arrives at a new investigation, they cannot figure if the occurrences are part of some elaborate master ...
Style: suspenseful, brutal, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, haunted house, ghost, paranormal activity, danger, brutality, insanity, transformation, death, murder, witch ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, serious, sexy ...
Plot: werewolf, vampire, deadly creature, supernatural, sexy female vampire, resurrection, supernatural ability, woman in danger, reincarnation, curses spells and rituals, afterlife, wizards and magicians ...
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36%
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Reawakened (2020)
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Hell Girl (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A demonic creature not of this world impregnates a woman. 160 years later a team of ghost hunters must set aside their quick buck party mentality when they discover one of their team is the offspring of the entity haunting the place - and its true ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
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Terror (1978)
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Duration: 84 min.
Story: A witch's prophecy - while being burned at the stake- curse condemns a family to horrible deaths.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, silent ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, curse, occult, witchcraft, supernatural horror, black magic, undead, killer, macabre, serial killer, strip club ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Castle of Blood (1964)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, suspense, atmospheric ...
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36%
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A Nun's Curse (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
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Ghosts of Goldfield (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two couples and another friend from college decide to visit the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada to make a documentary about ghosts – then their nightmares begin!
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
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