Movies like Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
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Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
9K
Original name: Spider Baby
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that starts at the age of ten and continues throughout the remainder of the person's life, rendering them with the intelligence of a child. The final generation of the family has been entrusted to the care of the family chauffeur (Lon Chaney Jr), and all is well for these odd people until a greedy branch of the family decides that they want to relieve the family of its home. Mental illness has always, and will always be, a fascinating subject for horror movies as it probes into the unknown and Spider Baby makes best use of that fact.
Style:
slasher, dark comedy, black and white, grindhouse, horror comedy, scary, disturbing, creepy, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exploitation, evil child, cannibalism, misfit, serial killer, cannibal, freak, cat, redneck, body horror, creepy child, killer, macabre, mental disorder, hippie, insect, demonic possession, female villain, family in crisis, evil woman, female psychopath, inbreeding, eating human flesh, woman with a gun, siblings ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
usa, virginia
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Most similar movies to Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, slasher, horror comedy and dark comedy films with plots about gory, exploitation, murder, dark humor, serial killer, deadly and blood mostly in Horror, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told: Basket Case (1982), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), Murder Party (2007), Bloodsucking Freaks (1976), Excision (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Style:
bloody, slasher, splatter, scary, horror comedy ...
Plot:
body horror, siamese twins, macabre, hospital, gory, evil twin, freak, monster, revenge, twins, public nudity, raped by monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
Style:
dark comedy, slasher, black comedy, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chainsaw, cannibalism, gory, masked killer, dark humor, psycho killer, chainsaw murder, monster, violent, radio, murder, texas chainsaw massacre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, usa, austin texas
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity
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horror comedy, humorous, semi serious, mumblecore, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, psychopath, murder, unrequited love, lifestyle, masked killer, holiday horror, painting, irony, serial killer, dark humor, party ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sardu runs the theatre of the macabre. Sardu is into S&M. Sardu likes to kill people in public and make them think it's fake.
Style:
controversial, grindhouse, bloody, slasher, psychotronic ...
Plot:
torture, sexual abuse, nude dance, bondage, cannibalism, murder of a nude woman, exploitation, gory, murder, sexploitation, necrophiliac, sexual perversion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style:
medical horror, surreal, sexy, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, surgeon, losing-it hero, surgical operation, sister sister relationship, high school, gory, mentally unstable protagonist, social relations, teacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The "head" of the family is literally that--a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family.
Style:
semi serious, scary, humorous, suspenseful, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex scene, femme fatale, dark humor, infidelity, eccentric family, disorder, love affair, experiment gone awry, misfit, mentally challenged, murder, diner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, vengeance, gory, survival, violent, slaughterhouse, mentally challenged, danger, dark humor, buddies, serial killer, police investigation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on ...
Style:
dark comedy, creepy, terrifying, slasher, black comedy ...
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, macabre, suburbs, dysfunctional family, eating human flesh, dark humor, youth, cannibal, body horror, blood, nightmare ...
Time:
year 1989, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1954
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, slasher, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
sexy girls, disembowelment, death, serial killer, murder, cannibal, cannibalism, guts, bondage, dismemberment, violence, acid ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man documents his girlfriend's 35th birthday on his phone. What he captures throughout the night are the most disturbing human acts imaginable.
Style:
realistic, suspense, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, cannibalism, cannibal, exploitation, life & death, twists and turns, family relations, vampire, madness, guts, corpse, haunted by the past ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" ...
Style:
disturbing, cult classic, psychotronic, horror comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
twins, zombie, freak, macabre, supernatural, monster, psychopath, superhuman powers, journalism, body horror, social misfits, hospital ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
Style:
black comedy, scary, slasher, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
butcher, cannibalism, goddess, serial killer, insanity, massacre, ancient mystery, danger, cooking and food, psychopath, reincarnation, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Style:
bloody, slasher, grindhouse, scary, southern gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, american civil war, vengeance, maniac, exploitation, gory, murder, macabre, brutality, folk horror, sadism, mayor ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
florida, southern usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, cannibalism, chainsaw, masked killer, murder, homicidal maniac, psychopath, danger, macabre, killer, maniac ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, north america
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A guy kills his wife because she's a bad cook.
Style:
slasher, sexual, horror comedy, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibal, cannibalism, therapist, eating human flesh, prostitution, serial killer, dark humor, massacre, food, sister in law, topless woman, street performer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, horror comedy, dark, slasher, classic horror ...
Plot:
body horror, creature, twins, babies and infants, violence, freak, birth, misfit, little creatures, baby born, creature feature, exploitation ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style:
parody, gothic, dark comedy, scary, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, murder, psychopath, backwoods, violence, trap, butcher, rural setting, female nudity, farmer, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
california, texas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Six actors go to graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
Style:
scary, slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, horror comedy ...
Plot:
hippie, spell, exploitation, undead, apocalypse, curse, occult, satanism, necrophilia, black mass, violence, doom ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Style:
cult classic, surreal, controversial, erotic, horror comedy ...
Plot:
surrealism, taxidermy, body horror, perversion, taxidermist, misfit, extreme, parents and children, violent, supermarket, gynecological exam, rejection ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, bloody, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, gory, macabre, human sacrifice, cannibalism, supernatural, violence, murder, visceral, psychopath, zombie, exploitation ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
florida, usa, miami, egypt
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In 1993, in Hollywood, California, a decadent ventriloquist overdoses and dies, leaving her two children to be sent to a foster house with their dummy. Their lives become a nightmare of abuse and murder, to be avenged by a wrathful dummy.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, horror comedy ...
Plot:
puppet, serial killer, doll, murder, orphan, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, psychopath, gory, drug abuse, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old South gets a ...
Style:
slasher, humorous, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, dark humor, serial killer, cannibalism, sex horror, racism, redneck, male pubic hair, male nudity, lesbianism, small town, violence spree ...
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, florida
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) returns to Miami to reopen his grandfather's defunct catering company. This arouses the interest of the local sheriff (Mark McLachlan), who holds Fuad's family reputation in ill favor. Fuad is soon, ...
Style:
slasher, splatter, cult classic, queer horror, funny ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, gory, cannibal, serial killer, exploitation, sadism, female nudity, torture, eating human flesh, extreme, guts, cannibalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
19%
Movie in collections
25K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Style:
horror comedy, creepy, dark comedy, surreal, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, conspiracy, surrealism, secret society, dark humor, cannibalism, cheerleader, paranoia, transformation, satire, black magic, making love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
Similarity:
19%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.
Style:
slasher, dark comedy, independent film, horror comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, serial killer, swing, female psychopath, nanny, psychopath, murder, psychotic, nymphet, dead body, role playing, oedipus complex ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
19%
195K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed ...
Style:
scary, bloody, classic horror, lovecraft, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
evil dead, demon, gory, haunted house, supernatural, demonic possession, dark humor, undead, chainsaw, woods, blood, zombie ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, medieval times, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
michigan, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, sex scene, making love, lust, orgasm, female orgasm, female nudity, sexual relations, love, murder, dying during sex, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
72K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.
Style:
scary, surreal, harsh, psychological, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
disfigurement, gory, body horror, macabre, abduction, captivity, dark humor, death, transformation, obsession, monster, walrus ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor ...
Style:
horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, toxic, homelessness, misfit, drunkenness, rape, junkyard, death, store, supernatural, experiment gone awry, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
Style:
slasher, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Plot:
halloween, halloween party, serial killer, psychopath, holiday horror, boy, dark humor, danger, gory, killer, house, guts ...
Similarity:
18%
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