Movies like The Castle of the Living Dead
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The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
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Original name: Il castello dei morti vivi
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspense, classic horror, psychotronic, cult classic, entertaining, odd, vintage
Plot:
folk horror, castle, mummy, midget, strongman, funeral, raven, witch, cat, sword fight, highwayman, prophecy, mute, sergeant, hanging, poison, dwarf, theatrical troupe, crossbow, italian gothic, embalming, fire breathing, shot in the eye, scythe, minstrel ...
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Most similar movies to The Castle of the Living Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gothic horror, psychotronic, gothic and suspense films with plots about supernatural, castle, murder, italian gothic, folk horror, deadly and macabre mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Castle of the Living Dead: Crypt of the Vampire (1964), The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963), The Long Hair of Death (1964), Horror Express (1972), The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor;Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the mysterious deaths surrounding Laura after a carriage accident ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot:
castle, vampire, female vampire, witch, crypt, family curse, supernatural power, curse, isolated place, evil, hanging, historian ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, psychotronic
Plot:
castle, torture chamber, rat, nazi, macabre, folk horror, murder, nudity, death, secret passageway, dead woman, fire ...
Time:
year 1963
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
witch, execution, revenge from beyond the grave, witch burning, ghost, evil woman, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, medieval, female villain, revenge, supernatural ...
Time:
15th century
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Style:
gothic, medical horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, train, supernatural, monster, macabre, goth, anthropologist, mad scientist, railway, trapped in a building, holiday horror, gory ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, prehistory, 80s, 70s
Place:
siberia, england, europe, asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Austria, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans.
Style:
gothic, suspense, classic horror, gothic horror, psychotronic
Plot:
woman strangled to death, monster, zombie, xmas, jekyll and hyde, mad scientist, castle, back from the dead, singer, christmas, stocking, boy meets girl ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Style:
gothic, erotic, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, sadism, small town, supernatural, whodunit, danger, apocalypse, gory, curses spells and rituals, mental illness, darkness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
scotland, europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot:
ghost, folk horror, undead, old dark house, revenge, pistol, deception, haunting, madness, genie, chess, injection ...
Time:
year 1963, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
zombie, lawyer, plague, grave, occult, revenge, edgar allan poe, bubonic plague, voice over narration, widow, dead woman, black magic ...
Time:
medieval times
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense, terrifying ...
Plot:
occult, evil child, curse, nudity, sex scene, female nudity, folk horror, 666, killer child, creepy child, macabre, possessed ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there ...
Style:
suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
hypnosis, secret passageway, siamese cat, guillotine, dorian gray, serial killer, vampire, costume party, theater, morgue, murder, fortune teller ...
Time:
year 1967
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer.
Style:
gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, cult classic, psychedelic ...
Plot:
skull, occult, murder, ghost, telekinesis, temptation, satanic ritual, fetish, house, witch, skeleton, psychic power ...
Time:
18th century, 60s, 19th century, 1810s, 20th century
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, england, france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, medical horror, slasher ...
Plot:
necrophilia, necrophiliac, hospital, second wife, folk horror, sadomasochism, dead wife, mad doctor, secret passageway, wife, woman, mystery woman ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
alien, scientist, supernatural, danger, love triangle, isolation, investigation, monster, alien invasion, pub, european, lost soul ...
Time:
year 1967, 20th century, 90s
Place:
scotland, england
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style:
gothic, classic horror, gothic horror, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot:
skeleton, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, body horror, laboratory, corpse, scientist, supernatural power, macabre, expedition ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
england, europe, east end london
Similarity:
42%
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, brutal, funny, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, full moon, castle, violence, lovers on the run, female nudity, curse, female werewolf, supernatural, bare breasts, legend, funeral ...
Time:
80s
Place:
transylvania, los angeles, europe, romania
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, female vampire, dracula, monster, vengeance, zombie, blood, crucifix, good versus evil, stalking, imaginary ...
Time:
year 1966, 1800s, 19th century, 1890s, victorian era ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young couple traveling thorugh the Pyrenees stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to discover that it is the headquarters for a coven of witches.
Style:
satanic, suspense, atmospheric, gothic, period piece ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, occult, photographer, coven, isolation, macabre, folk horror, young couple, black magic, mountain, superstition ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, suspense, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Plot:
witch, witch burning, witchcraft, sexual tension, seduction, curses spells and rituals, eroticism, castle, forbidden love, madness, supernatural, occult ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
murder, disability, corpse, false identity, piano, female protagonist, father, uncover truth, investigation, parents and children, mistaken identity, missing person ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, french riviera, cote d'azur, riviera
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Kinski plays a retired doctor and jealous husband who returns with his wealthy wife (Katia Christian) to her family castle. He discovers his late father-in-law's basement laboratory, and angry at the attention his wife is paying to an old ...
Style:
suspense, gothic horror, gothic
Plot:
rape, doctor, castle, jekyll and hyde, murder, jealous husband, jealousy, forest, murder trial, scientific experiment, drifter, killing spree ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day ...
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, witch, supernatural, zombie, folk horror, forest, torture, witchcraft, violent content, woods, nudity, escapades ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, slasher, suspense ...
Plot:
insane asylum, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric ward, serial killer, macabre, crazy, argument, acid, intimacy, insanity, bloodbath ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted, ghost, edgar allan poe, supernatural, haunting, halloween, tomb, writers, snake, reporter, lgbt, love story ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the 19th century, a sadistic nobleman terrorizes the members of his family. He is found dead, but his ghost soon returns to haunt the residents of his castle.
Style:
gothic, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Plot:
masochist, ghost, sadomasochism, haunted castle, bdsm, haunted by the past, crypt, nobleman, father son relationship, folk horror, haunted house, female psychopath ...
Time:
year 1963, 19th century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.
Style:
classic horror, psychotronic, apocalyptic, depressing, gothic horror ...
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, end of the world, doppelganger, unhappy ending, lookalikes, apocalypse, invasion, epidemic, pastor, spaceship, exploding planet ...
Place:
new york, russia, china, washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Plot:
exploitation, torture, judge, dishonesty, false accusation, courtroom drama, life is a bitch, danger, tragic hero, prison, prison life, righting the wronged ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Roscoe, and enjoy 'being' the younger man. But ...
Style:
psychotronic, gothic horror, psychological, classic horror, cult horror ...
Plot:
hypnotist, mind control, swing, psychic power, telekinesis, virus, sorcery, occult, sword, mental disorder, murder, nightclub ...
Time:
year 1967
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn't answer, ...
Style:
gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
castle, supernatural, murder, monster, nobility, twists and turns, baron, soldier, haunted by the past, ghost, obsession, danger ...
Time:
19th century, year 1963, 1800s, 80s
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, witch, castle, curse, torture chamber, supernatural, hanging, auction, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
15th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, psychotronic
Plot:
werewolf, big natural breasts, female nudity, vampire, witchcraft, occult, monster, satanism, castle, grave, incantation, silver ...
Time:
17th century
Similarity:
30%
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