Movies like Legend of the Wa-ya

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Legend of the Wa-ya (0000)
Legend of the Wa-ya (0000)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: When her superstitious, Depression-era, Appalachian community is besieged by deadly "wild dog" attacks that are connected to a legend, local outcast and tomboy, Adelaide Bradley must face a terrifying secret in order to save her family.
Plot: werewolf, wolf, legend, backwoods, depression era
Place: north carolina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about werewolf, wolf, monster, lycanthropy, supernatural, animal horror and transformation mostly in Horror, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Legend of the Wa-ya: Werewolves of Stayville (2009), House of the Wolf Man (2009), Mexican Werewolf in Texas (2005), Weedwolf (2011), Lycan Colony (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Werewolves of Stayville (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A mad scientist by the name of Dr. Nueve is responsible for unleashing werewolves and a zombie upon the citizens of Stayville, while a local police officer named Karen also a werewolf has been killing off citizens left and right. Intrepid heroes ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: werewolf, zombie, wolf, creature feature, monster, transformation
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
House of the Wolf Man (2009)
Genre: Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Five strangers are invited to a castle under the pretense that one may inherit it. Little do they know what dangers await at the House of the Wolfman.
Style: gothic, retro, independent film
Plot: werewolf, monster, dracula, creature, frankenstein, wolf, big game hunter, lycanthropy, wolfman, ghoul, gypsy, witch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Mexican Werewolf in Texas (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the dusty little town of Furlough in Texas, an animal is slaughtering the cattle and the locals. When the teenager Tommy is killed, their friends Anna Furlough, her Mexican-American boyfriend Miguel Gonzalez, Jill Gillespie and Rosie finds that a ...
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: werewolf, chupacabra, creature feature, creature, wolf, supernatural, monster, narration, teenage sex, veterinarian, disembowelment, animal horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.5
 63
Weedwolf (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Weedwolf, the outrageous residents of small-town Normal, Texas, find their partying ways threatened by a mysterious werewolf who likes to eat stoners. All that stands in the way of total mayhem (or maybe the casue of it) is Grass County Sheriff ...
Style: semi serious, scary, captivating, humorous
Plot: werewolf, cannabis, sex, wolfman, police, party, small town, wolf, lesbian sex, extreme, large breasts
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: werewolf, lycanthropy, full moon, scientific experiment, supernatural, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, serial killer, frankenstein, wolf, teenage girl, frankenstein's monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 1.7
 447
Lycan Colony (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Some small towns hold many secrets. Two siblings and a newly settled doctor's family are about to find out this town's darkest secret...the hard way. The town folk are good and evil werewolves! And all things are not as they appear.
Plot: werewolf, curse, wolfman, monster, full moon, lycanthropy, lycanthrope, small town, claws, fur, fangs
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Werewolves of the third reich (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Germany at the height of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers discover Doctor Mengele's diabolical plan to create an unstoppable army of Nazi werewolves.
Style: scary, suspense, captivating, tense, slasher ...
Plot: werewolf, world war two, battles, soldier, nazi occultism, extramarital affair, nazi germany, american soldier, nazi, human experiment, concentration camp, deadly weapon ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Dark Moon Rising (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way.
Style: tense, enigmatic, captivating
Plot: werewolf, small town, mysticism, fight for supremacy, supernatural being, supernatural ability, creature, struggle for survival, mysterious girl, supernatural, paranormal, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 3.6
 314
Wolfhound (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Colum Kennedy went with his family to an Irish village to visit the places of origin of their ancestors. Once he arrived in the village realizes that the community is populated by beastly shape-shifting beings able to transform into animals. Colum ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: werewolf, medieval, sex scene, dream, husband wife relationship, village, writers, survival, showdown, wolf, lycanthropy, lesbian sex ...
Time: medieval times
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn't happen. The boy grows up and ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic
Plot: werewolf, folklore, deal with the devil, gaucho, faust, monster, occult, supernatural, curse, myth, transformation, legend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.1
 304
Synevir (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Famous lake in Carpathian mountains -- lake Synevir -- is known for its rich history throughout the hundreds of years as a place of mystical unexplained events. There is a group of students who decided to spend a weekend at the lake. They did not ...
Style: enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting
Plot: werewolf, monster, brother sister relationship, student, supernatural, legend, tourist, woods, lake
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Game of Werewolves (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After 15 years, Tomas, a moderately successful writer, returns to his family's ancestral village in Galicia to receive a civic award, and write his next book. Neither of those things happens.
Style: scary, semi serious, not serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, village, curse, manhunt, imaginary, deadly creature, on the run, danger, curses spells and rituals, moon, monster ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Little Dead Rotting Hood (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead...then people.
Style: scary, tense, captivating, suspenseful, folk tale ...
Plot: werewolf, small town, police, good versus evil, home invasion, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, black, saving a life, monster, wolf, woods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Howling: New Moon Rising (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gary Brandner's horror novels come to life again in this sequel to "The Howling." A number of vicious murders occur in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives. The gruesome slayings look disturbingly like ...
Style: dark, independent film, scary, serious, rough
Plot: werewolf, female werewolf, supernatural, lycanthropy, creature, creature feature, living dead, killer animal, monster, wolf, small town, clergy ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Santo vs. the She-Wolves (1976)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Also known as Santo vs. the She-Wolves
Plot: werewolf, witch, wrestling, murder, superhero, bare chested male, wrestler, mystery killer
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Audie & the Wolf (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: When the moon is full, a friendly WOLF turns into a savage, bloodthirsty MAN and goes on a kill spree in a starlet's Hollywood mansion.
Style: disturbing, semi serious, captivating
Plot: werewolf, murderer, dark humor, murder, adult humor, silly humor, homicidal maniac, turned into an animal, lycanthropy, wolf
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 2.8
 1K
War Wolves (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack Ford leads a special forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel, a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf. Little does Jack know that three of the female soldiers serving in his unit ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: werewolf, save the world, deadly creature, soldier, good versus evil, chases and races, danger, supernatural, human becomes animal, swat, virus, wolf ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.9
 667
The Wolf (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In nineteenth century Poland Kacper is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric
Plot: werewolf, medieval, vampire, military, folk horror, renaissance, monster, adultery, wolf, lesbian, snow, fog ...
Place: eastern europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 4.1
 327
Death Moon (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A manager is sent to vacation by his doctor due to symptoms of stress. He chooses Hawaii, because that's where his grandfather worked as a missionary. He doesn't know that his grandpa and all male successors are cursed by the Voodoo clan. ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: werewolf, monster, creature feature, vacation gone wrong, murder, vacation, occult, transformation, moon, curse, animal horror
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Relics of the Madr? V?na (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Maggie Keller's PhD. is in jeopardy... Facing an anonymous accusation of plagiarism, a doctoral committee ready to expel her, and contradictory support from her academic advisor, Maggie plays a last-ditch wild-card that stalls their verdict on ...
Plot: legend
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Never Cry Werewolf (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Teenager Loren (Nina Dobrev) doesn't like her new neighbor, Jared (Peter Stebbings), or his vicious dog. Along with her friend Steven (Sean O'Neill), Loren spies on Jared and begins to suspect he's a werewolf, responsible for a rash ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, supernatural ability, deadly creature, danger, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, creature feature, creature, killer animal, stalker, monster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.7
 1K
Wolvesbayne (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make ...
Style: suspense, bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, danger, rivalry, escapades, transformation, feud, murder, ancient ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
My Husband's a Werewolf (2017)
Genre: Short, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 9 min.
Story: Brian has been keeping a secret from his wife and his best friend for some time. Trying to live an ordinary life for Brian doesn't come easy.
Plot: werewolf, husband, moon, best friend, halloween party, wife, drunk, secret, friend, halloween, costume, halloween costume
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe.
Style: cult classic, scary, funny, brutal, classic horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, full moon, castle, female werewolf, female nudity, curse, supernatural, lovers on the run, monster, vampire, bare breasts, legend ...
Time: 80s
Place: transylvania, los angeles, europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.2
 149
La loba (1965)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
Style: gothic horror, medical horror
Plot: werewolf, lycanthropy, cannibal, mute child, heart surgery, full moon, gypsy, mad doctor, murder, sister sister relationship, daughter, female werewolf ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
Style: gothic, suspense, classic horror, gothic horror, scary ...
Plot: werewolf, vampire, frankenstein, wolfman, lycanthropy, monster, wolf, gypsy, crypt, skeleton, full moon, lycanthrope ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 1.7
 4K
Werewolf (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A team of archaeologists with unplaceable accents unearth a skeleton at a dig in an Arizona quarry. The Native Americans on the dig instantly recognize it as the remains of a werewolf, so the team leaders immediately take it to their lab and stare ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, cult classic ...
Plot: werewolf, lycanthropy, supernatural, archaeologist, desert, skeleton, female werewolf, rescue, danger, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Curse of the Wolf (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dakota, a young werewolf, has finally learned to control her nighttime transformations. She desperately wants to live a normal life, and to break free from her curse, she flees to hide in the city. When the pack aggressively hunts her down, the ...
Style: scary, serious, grindhouse, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, gory, danger, on the run, deadly creature, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, martial arts, guts, monster, runaway ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Project: Metalbeast (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a ...
Style: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic ...
Plot: werewolf, transformation, scientist, monster, medical research, trapped, murder, secret, cover up, experiment gone awry, beast, creature feature ...
Time: jurassic, year 1994, year 1974
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Werewolf by Night (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
Story: On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are ...
Style: gothic, anthology
Plot: werewolf, monster, villain, superhero, comic book, creature, fight, wolf, lycanthropy, multiverse, monster hunter, buddy ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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