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The Boy from Hell (2004)
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The Boy from Hell (2004)
Original name: 日野日出志の怪奇劇場 地獄小僧
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story: A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.
Style: suspense
Plot: zombie, body horror, cannibal, doctor, curse, children, mother, hospital, child murderess, blood, death of child, back from the dead, grave, decapitation, child sacrifice, child murder, dead children, traffic accident, boy, car accident, gore, stabbed in the throat, severed head

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, independent film, slasher and weird films with plots about gore, zombie, blood, female nudity, murder, violence and blood splatter mostly in Horror and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Boy from Hell: Evil Clutch (1988), The Forever Dead (2007), Doomed (2007), Night of the Dead: Leben Tod (2006), Dorm of the Dead (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Evil Clutch (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of a hideous monster who takes the form of a beautiful, seductive woman who in a torrent of special effects, beauty and monster transform into a climax of pure evil. For years this monster woman has cursed a small village, and to this day ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, suspense
Plot: zombie, body horror, supernatural horror, monster, supernatural power, woods, female killer, chainsaw, demon, decapitation, american abroad, father daughter relationship ...
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95%
The Forever Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
Style: suspense
Plot: zombie, rabbit, flesh eating zombie, gore
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Doomed (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In the future, death row criminals are given a chance to gain a pardon, on a "survivor" style reality show, only to find the island is full of zombie ex-contestants. (It's as bad as it sounds)
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: zombie, island, convict, no survivors, bunker, gore, blood splatter
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68%
Night of the Dead: Leben Tod (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Pregnant and frightened, Anais is not allowed to leave the specialized hospital where her husband, Peter has a medical internship with his uncle, Dr. Gabriel Schreklich, a man with a serum that can resurrect the dead. But things go terribly wrong ...
Style: suspense, tense, rough, independent film, hispanic ...
Plot: ghoul, zombie, survival, pregnancy, mad scientist, genius, violence, revenge, blood, medicine, love, escape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Dorm of the Dead (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: At Arkham University, campus bitches Clare and Julie have a score to settle with goth chicks Sarah and Allison. And when Amy accidentally unleashes a campus zombie epidemic, Clare picks Sarah as the perfect candidate to join the walking dead! But ...
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: zombie, epidemic, apocalypse, lesbian sex, undead, female nudity, lesbianism, college, blood, lesbian, blonde, bare breasts ...
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Zombiez (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A woman finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim to the Zombiez?
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: zombie, black, blaxploitation, american horror, burned alive, all black cast, death, african american, loss of loved one, murder, female nudity, black american ...
Time: 2000s
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58%
Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An evil demonic scarecrow resurrects the dead as ravenous cannibalistic zombies who feast on the living. A motley assortment of folks who include a bunch of bickering college kids, a trio of dangerous escaped convicts, an equally lethal pair of ...
Style: independent film
Plot: zombie, living dead, flesh eater, gory, guts, violence, blood, zombie violence, flesh eating zombie, gore, blood splatter
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57%
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Miss Zombie (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home - a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling them not to feed her meat. The family is concerned, of ...
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural horror, female monster, employer employee relationship, mother son estrangement, tragedy, domestic servant, undead, mother child relationship, body horror, living dead, jealousy ...
Place: japan, mount fuji
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Tomie: Replay (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside her, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with--not a baby--the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, suspense ...
Plot: disappearance, supernatural, investigation, danger, ghost, bodily dismemberment, mysterious death, mysterious girl, reincarnation, mental institution, body horror, hospital ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
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56%
Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
Plot: cannibal, attempted rape, sadist, sacrifice, ritual, nightmare, curse, flesh eating, boy strangling, exploitation, zombie, suburban life ...
Time: prehistoric times
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56%
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Raving Maniacs (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: At a rave, people give out glowing pills that turns people into zombies.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: zombie, virus, rave, incest, rave party, friend, female nudity, zombie violence, drug, gore
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53%
Mai-chan's Daily Life: The Movie (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A young maid who cannot die is rented out by her master to paying customers to do whatever they want to her.
Style: disturbing, sadistic, suspense, anime, controversial ...
Plot: violence, perversion, punishment, maid, abuse, torture, sadistic horror, sadistic psychopath, sadistic violence, teenage girl, sadistic cruelty, sadist ...
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53%
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: When an overweight girl gets dumped by her lover, she resolves to impress him by going on an extreme diet. All goes well at first, but when she is reunited with her former lover, she begins to feel the hunger pains once again...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, anthology, detective ...
Plot: teenage boy, death, teenager, zombie survival, living dead, undead, dead man, flesh eating zombie, zombie attack, zombie, struggle for survival, walking dead ...
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48%
A Bothered Conscience (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Deep in the remote Arkansas backwoods, a father passes on the traditions of the Ozark mountain men to his 5 year-old son. Under his strict and cruel guidance, young Lucas learns to protect the family land at all costs, and hones the skills of the ...
Style: slasher, suspense, independent film
Plot: zombie, redneck, dead, backwoods, father, son, woods, ghost, blood, serial killer, mountain man, rifle ...
Place: arkansas
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48%
Chanbara Beauty: The Movie - Vortex (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sisters Aya and Saki put aside their rivalry and go toe-to-toe with Himiko and her band of zombies. The evil Himiko needs the blood of the young girls to restore her youth, while the sisters need to stop Himiko to save mankind ...
Style: serious, scary, stylized, rough, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, zombie, zombie child, elixir, immortality, strong violent content, disorder, supernatural, save the world, heroes, danger, escapades ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Killing Twice: A Deadhunter Chronicle (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Deadhunters must fight versus a monster possessed by the spirit of a biblical demon who is killing people in a High School. There's no choice but to spend one night inside the building trying to hunt and kill this diabolical creature.
Style: suspense
Plot: zombie, night, guts, experiment, demon, monster, prison, gore, throat slitting
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Gore-met, Zombie Chef from Hell (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A cannibal opens up a seafood restaurant, and kills and cooks people to serve to his customers.
Style: slasher, independent film, slasher horror
Plot: zombie, cannibal, food, cannibalism, blood, violence, restaurant, dismemberment, decapitation, blood splatter, gore, knife ...
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Bone Sickness (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young woman finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences.
Style: disturbing, terrifying, controversial, bloody, medical horror ...
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The Laughing Dead (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Zombies, demons, and a mad doctor await a bus-load of folks looking for a tour of Aztec ruins. Father O'Sullivan is a Catholic priest who has lost his faith in God and who cannot forget the nun with whom he once had an affair (and a son). ...
Style: independent film
Plot: priest in love, zombie, undead, day of the dead, creature feature, monster, possessed human, possession, demon, catholic priest, nightmare, mad doctor ...
Place: mexico
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Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bunch of zombies that are used by the government to fight in a major war in the near future get launched into space. The space shuttle gets caught in a time warp and returns to Earth in the present day. Naturally, the zombies get loose and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: gory, flesh eater, guts, zombie, flesh eating zombie, zombie violence, blood, gore, blood splatter
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43%
Violent New Breed (1997)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.
Style: independent film, splatter
Plot: child murder, mutilation, church, suicide attempt, tentacle, demon, pregnancy, child sacrifice, violence, murder, blood, gore ...
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42%
The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of six friends are out in the rural south on a deer hunt (even though one of the six is blind), when they start hearing strange noises coming from the woods. An investigation of the sounds leads them to an old Confederate graveyard, which ...
Style: independent film
Plot: zombie, cemetery, civil war, american civil war, cannibal, living dead, freak, group, revenge, soldier, diary, cannibalism ...
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42%
Recycled Parts (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On friday night five young friends turning into a nightmare when the driver of their vehicle plows into a pregnant woman and a mysterious "doctor" appears out of the blue to help. Once in the doctor's "office," however, the ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, medical horror ...
Plot: office, gory, mad scientist, danger, on the run, doctor, blood, college student, traffic accident, organ theft, mad doctor, organ transplant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Hell's Gate (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: surprise ending, suspense
Plot: folk horror, blood, murder, violence, monk, trap, cave, spider, mutilation, plot twist, gore, stabbed in the chest ...
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40%
Drive-In Horrorshow (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A low-budget horror anthology made of 5 short films, each belonging to a different horror sub-genre. These segments are introduced by a ghoulish host of the sort that used to present late-night horror movies on TV. The five films are Pig, The ...
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, slasher, dark comedy, independent film
Plot: body horror, zombie, freak, insane, woods, torture, murder, blood, death, psychopath, violence, killing spree ...
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40%
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Devil Story (1986)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A zombie wearing a Nazi SS uniform terrorizes the French countryside.
Style: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, weird
Plot: nazi zombie, zombie, wife, mother, couples, night, disfigurement, supernatural power, occult, absurd violence, french countryside, supernatural ...
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39%
Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a group of well-meaning archaeology students unearth an ancient jewel box in Southern California's Burbank mountains, they unleash a deadly curse that turns perfectly normal women into maniacal, bloodthirsty cannibals. Written and directed ...
Style: suspense
Plot: virus, sex horror, nudity, blood, sex, female nudity, death, jewelry, sex scene, cannibal, witchcraft, possession ...
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Meat Grinder (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a noodle stall worker goes missing, her boyfriend goes looking for her at her workplace. The noodle stall owner, Buss (Mai Charoenpura), acts suspiciously jittery and not long after, the boyfriend is kidnapped and tortured. After all, Buss has ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, weird
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, extreme, serial killer, violent, sex, violence, blood, sadism, child murder, suicide attempt, violent death ...
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38%
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Lynch Mob (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The rural town of Leesburg Georgia holds a dark secret. A century old curse has condemned the citizens to a diet of human flesh. Unable to leave the city limits the town folks must lure unsuspecting travelers to their quaint town where they soon ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, mafia, survival, danger, rivalry, isolation, vengeance, imaginary, confined, curses spells and rituals, small town, curse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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37%
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Ritual (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dr. Alice Dodgson gets her medical license revoked after the death of one patient. She's facing the possibility of not get any job when she accepts to be the nurse for one young man who suffers of cephallitis called Wesley Claybourne. Aside ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot: voodoo, murder, revenge, doctor, zombie, supernatural, burial, illness, doctors and patients, danger, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: jamaica, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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