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Begotten (1989)
13K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, experimental, independent film, extreme horror, terrifying, controversial, black and white, postmodern ...
Plot:
necrophilia, surrealism, self mutilation, macabre, gory, spirituality, cruelty, chaos, nihilism, extreme, supernatural, obsession, darkness, reincarnation, perversion, unsettling, human nature, religions or cults, art, hardcore, anthropology, disembowelment, transcendence, woods, desolation ...
Place:
america
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Most similar movies to Begotten
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, controversial, weird and psychological films with plots about gore, gory, blood, extreme, violence, violent and danger mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like Begotten: Eraserhead (1977), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Subconscious Cruelty (2000), Spiral (2000), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
142K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, anthology, suspense ...
Plot:
symbolism, surrealism, dead child, torture, birth, killing, incestuous desire, pregnancy, cannibalism, extreme, danger, gory ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, creepy, surreal, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, curse, obsession, small town, surrealism, darkness, insanity, transformation, body horror, mental disorder, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style:
sexy, creepy, surreal, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
voodoo, superstition, black magic, zombie, anthropologist, hallucination, nightmare, surrealism, buried alive, torture, supernatural, religion ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978, year 1985
Place:
haiti, boston, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
Style:
disturbing, bloody, controversial, scary, sexy ...
Plot:
necrophilia, necrophiliac, death, couples, corpse, murder, gory, violent, insanity, sexualized violence, sex, extreme ...
Time:
80s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, imaginary, supernatural ability, danger, curses spells and rituals, stalking, gory, alien encounter, extreme, surrealism, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces ...
Style:
anthology, psychedelic, avant garde, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, fascism, obsession, split personality, supernatural, danger, mental illness, gory, sex, extreme, violent, reincarnation ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
halloween, gory, violent, violence, macabre, urban legend, killer clown, dark humor, hitchhiker, brutality, psychopath, evil wins ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
98K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey ...
Style:
satanic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
revenge, nightmare, surrealism, cult leader, biker gang, cosmic horror, drug trip, vengeance, lumberjack, rage, sadism, russian roulette ...
Time:
year 1983, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
xian, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, controversial, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
masked killer, necrophilia, serial killer, exploitation, torture, extreme, violent sex, cannibalism, murder, maniac, gory, cannibal ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores all over her body that begin to pustulate and bleed. He uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait. When he can no longer handle it anymore ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, bloody ...
Plot:
mermaid, gory, creature, body horror, mysterious character, extreme, woman in danger, dealing with death, violence, fear, blood, artist ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, extreme horror, controversial, serious ...
Plot:
strong sexual content, psycho killer, rape and murder, violent, brutal rape, serial killer, making love, extreme, hardcore, nazism, psycho, serial rapist ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, dark, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, alternate dimension, alternate reality, metaphysics, nightmare, female nudity, renaissance, magic realism, time travel, macabre, trippy, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A off-world look at the superstitious repercussions of tattooing an Ouija Board on your body. Hagen, who has a dead wife believes that he can revive her from the dead. Travis, a man who lost his brother and wants to join him in the after life. ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
reincarnation, obsession, supernatural, twists and turns, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, pig killer, infidelity, cosmic horror, extreme, dark place, strong violent content ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style:
slasher, bloody, sexy, brutal, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, sadistic horror, tourist, travel, castration, violence, kidnapping, sadism, killed by a dog, brutality ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
rome italy, europe, slovakia, prague
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
Style:
grindhouse, slasher, bloody, detective, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, magician, blood, exploitation, hypnosis, gory, supernatural, magic, murderer, killer, cemetery, fire ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot:
rabbit, dark humor, danger, confined, confinement indoors, isolation, surrealism, exploitation, arthouse horror, extreme, trippy, stoned ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
100%
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21K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sexy, creepy, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, necrophilia, zombie, sexual abuse, high school, violent, moral dilemma, best friend, depravity, mentally unstable, rape, bullying ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, year 2008, 80s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest.
Style:
anthology, bloody, disturbing, extreme horror, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, torture, violence, gory, extreme, exploitation, killer, body horror, rape, maniac, hell, supernatural power ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Two victims are graphically tortured in this American reimagining of the popular underground Japanese film series.
Style:
extreme horror, psychotronic, suspenseful, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
violence, torturer, abduction, extreme, pig killer, suspect, brutality, torture, psychopath as protagonist, gory, strong female presence, psychopath ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
Style:
independent film, controversial, dark, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
underground, violent, extreme, hitman, chaos, imaginary, heroes, supernatural, rivalry, danger, chaos and mayhem, gory ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, brutal, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
torture, humiliation, psychopath, murder, revenge, exploitation, explicit sex, urban legend, psychological torture, sadism, serial killer, abandoned house ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demon, djinn, violence, genie, devil, wish come true, transformation, supernatural power, violent, curses spells and rituals, monster, blood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia
Similarity:
50%
131
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, psychedelic, surreal, spiritual ...
Plot:
surrealism, spirit, nightmare, metaphysics, exile, haunting, visionary, isolation, identity crisis, ritual, suffering, transcendence ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see ...
Style:
disturbing, art house, controversial, avant garde, underground film ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, nudity, brutality, child abuse, female nudity, violence, blood, sadism, male nudity, rape, macabre, burial ...
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, suspense, controversial, rough ...
Plot:
degradation, found footage, extreme, torture, murder, serial killer, violent, exploitation, gory, identical twins, rape, blood ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style:
brutal, suspense, creepy, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, mad scientist, body horror, surgery, violence, victim, evil doctor, insanity, experiment gone awry, confined, sadism, sadistic horror ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, slasher, atmospheric ...
Plot:
demon, cosmic horror, satan, devil, supernatural horror, black magic, church, supernatural, priest, occult, research, obsession ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
24%
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