Movies like Empire of the Dark

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Empire of the Dark (1990)
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Empire of the Dark (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A private detective searching for a killer comes across a satanic cult from another dimension, monsters called up from hell and murderous ninja assassins.
Style: independent film, scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, detective, cult film
Plot: demon, monster, investigation, cave, underground, dream, bounty hunter, satanism, parent child relationship, a vision, human sacrifice, swordplay, heroes, supernatural, rescue, supernatural ability, babies and infants, danger, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults, killer, devil, black mass, devil worship ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
Keyword: dreams

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Most similar movies to Empire of the Dark

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and exciting films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, escapades, monster, heroes and imaginary mostly in Horror, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Empire of the Dark: The Aftermath (1982), Hellbinders (2009), The Dead Undead (2010), Vampyre Nation (2012), Code Red (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Aftermath (1982)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutants rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two pretty women and a couple of kids in a growing ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, tense ...
Plot: biker, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, gang, astronaut, mutant, survival, chaos, battles, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
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95%
 3.7
 631
Hellbinders (2009)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A supernatural battle for souls plays out on the streets with lots of guns and knives.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman in danger, supernatural ability, apocalypse, gang, supernatural, zombie, heroic mission, mentally unstable, unlikely partners, battles, danger, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Dead Undead (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Good Vampires battle Zombie Vampires while trying to hide their own identity and prevent the infection from spreading.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: vampire, zombie, save the day, escapades, race against time, supernatural, good versus evil, imaginary, master warrior, danger, heroes, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Vampyre Nation (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, interesting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, heroic mission, deadly creature, rivalry, murder, danger, escapades, monster, partner, heroes, reluctant partners ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Code Red (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, suspense ...
Plot: mutant, chaos, danger, battles, world war two, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, zombie, soldier, survival, bio weapon, zombie attack ...
Time: 20th century
Place: bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, danger, law enforcement, supernatural, violence, showdown, killer, violent content, supernatural ability, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 3.7
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Phantom Force (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, exciting, rough ...
Plot: space and aliens, supernatural, good versus evil, terrorism, danger, imaginary, ghost, heroes, superhuman powers, escapades, gory, custody ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 2.3
 247
The Snow Queen (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mysterious presence has threatened humanity for hundreds of years as it lurks in the frozen wastes people avoid. Nearly unnoticed as its power grows, she's been slowly draining the planet of one of its most precious resources. It takes two ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, good versus evil, rivalry, supernatural, imaginary, danger, escapades, heroes, adventurer, curse, monster, soldier ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 5.4
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Scanner Cop (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to ...
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, investigation, vengeance, gory, rivalry, danger, fighting crime, supernatural ability, police station, adoption, cop ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 3.0
 1K
The Bleeding (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Surrounded by carnage, slaughter, brutal crashes and total mayhem, Shawn Black is in a race to save the world from pure evil.
Style: scary, rough, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, uninhibited rivalry, gang, one man army, imaginary, violence spree, tough heroes, gory, strong violent content, rapper, vampire, vampire hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 240
Bare Knuckles (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, serial killer, car chase, psychopath, bounty hunter, violent content, investigation, danger, chases and races, rivalry, urban, killer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Reign in Darkness (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When molecular biologist Michael Dorn is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing, his life takes a dramatic turn. The virus turns its victims into a unique breed of elite vampires. Now on the run, with relentless bounty hunter Lance ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, bounty hunter, vampire, virus, terminal illness, chaos, danger, experiment gone awry, escapades, bloodlust, disorder, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
Style: gothic, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense
Plot: ancient mystery, church, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, monster, imaginary, deadly creature, escapades, creature feature, creature, animal attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 2.0
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Supercroc (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A team of soldiers must stop a giant, bloodthirsty crocodile from reaching a nearby city, while trying to avoid being a meal for the beast themselves.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, soldier, save the day, deadly creature, race against time, danger, supernatural, escapades, military, monster, city, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.2
 405
Alpha Girls (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alpha Girls is about a Sorority House terrorized by an unholy curse of their own creation.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: sorority, friendship, occult, danger, youth, betrayal, college, curses spells and rituals, curse, satanism, clergy, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 2.8
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Zombie Wars (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as ...
Style: bleak, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: zombie, soldier, survival horror, chaos, supernatural, survival, danger, gory, blood, zombie apocalypse, infected, farm ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.0
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Heatstroke (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An ex-model teams up with a soldier to thwart aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, computer animated
Plot: dinosaur, soldier, heroes, dangerous animal, escapades, evil alien, danger, apocalypse, space travel, space and aliens, gory, global warming ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: mountain, skiing, isolation, deadly creature, survival, danger, bigfoot, friendship, supernatural, snow, winter, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Slayer (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, soldier, heroic mission, survival, supernatural, wilderness, gory, deadly creature, leadership, danger, escapades, vampire hunter ...
Place: south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Amityville Island (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: shark, curse, mad scientist, evil, monster, murder, supernatural, characters in danger, peril, experiment gone awry, scientist, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Morlocks (2011)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: time machine, time travel, survival, danger, chaos, deadly creature, supernatural, military, battles, murder, violence, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Puppet Master X follows the characters of Danny as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend Beth with the help of Toulon's puppets. However their help is short lived as they end up getting stolen by Ozu (Terumi Shimazu). Danny and Beth must try to ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: puppet, curses spells and rituals, puppet master, supernatural, doll, good versus evil, mad scientist, danger, military, rescue, swastika, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 3.7
 2K
DNA (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: DNA is a 1997 American science fiction action film starring Mark Dacascos and Jürgen Prochnow, and directed by William Mesa. Filming took place in the Philippines. The film was retitled ADN - La menace for its French DVD release, and Scarabée for ...
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, jungle, dangerous animal, deadly creature, supernatural, jungle adventure, creature, danger, experiment gone awry, creature feature, monster, evil ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: borneo
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Gangs of the Dead (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the verge of a major arms deal, the two toughest gangs in L.A. will find themselves trapped in an abandoned warehouse by a ravenous mob of bloodthirsty zombies. They will have to work together with the cops to avoid being torn limb-from-limb and ...
Style: scary, rough, futuristic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, survival, experiment gone awry, police station, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, chaos and mayhem, chaos, rivalry, danger, gang ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.7
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Manticore (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: survival, military, danger, daring rescue, monster, animal attack, reptiles, creature, killer animal, soldier, chaos, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster ...
Plot: apocalypse, space battle, alien encounter, mysterious planet, chaos, survival, danger, deadly creature, imaginary, escapades, planet, evil alien ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.8
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Soulkeeper (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, treasure hunt, heroic mission, danger, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, gory, supernatural ability, parallel world, legends and myths ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness (2004)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious ...
Plot: gargoyle, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, church, priest, deadly creature, danger, imaginary, special agent, gory, escapades, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 2.8
 524
The Damned (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A clan of vampires has just moved into the neighborhood, and college student Tom accidentally discovers his new neighbors' secret. When the vampires find out that Tom knows, he must do whatever he can to survive. His two roommates, a horror fan ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: vampire, police investigation, danger, zombie, supernatural, amateur detective, heroes, investigation, imaginary, protagonist as suspect, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 3.8
 2K
D-Railed (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot: survival horror, blood, supernatural, danger, survival, chaos, accident, deadly creature, rescue, panic, loss of control, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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