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Curse of the God Dog (1977)
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Curse of the God Dog (1977)
Original name: 犬神の悪霊
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.
Plot: village, miner, curse, murder of wife, possessed human, death of child, possessed girl, attempted rape, suicide by hanging, skinny dipping, family curse, contaminated water, angry mob, biker gang, vow of revenge, severed arm, dead dog, killing a dog, sex in shower, nude swimming, breast kissing, hand chopped off

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about curse, ghost, supernatural, female nudity, village, murder and danger mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like Curse of the God Dog: The Boy from Hell (2004), The Naked Witch (1961), Sadako vs. Kayako (2016), Crypt of the Vampire (1964), The Imp (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Boy from Hell (2004)
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 ...
Style: suspense
Plot: zombie, body horror, cannibal, curse, doctor, traffic accident, death of child, dead children, child murder, back from the dead, child murderess, grave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Naked Witch (1961)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story: A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch (who happens to be both beautiful and naked) rises from her grave and embarks on a campaign of seduction and murder against the ...
Style: satanic, independent film
Plot: witch, folk horror, voice over narration, inn, nudity, student, female nudity, witchcraft, curse, resurrection, coven, devil ...
Time: 1840s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki
Style: scary, suspense, stylized, dark, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: curse, ghost, bullying, murder, crossover, haunting, hallucination, exorcism, professor, sacrifice, college, urban legend ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
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, suspense, classic horror, cult classic ...
Plot: witch, castle, female vampire, vampire, family curse, crypt, witchcraft, supernatural power, curse, monster, folk horror, death of cousin ...
Time: 17th century, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 4.4
 162
The Imp (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Stunningly sexy Pan Dang plays a Hong Kong woman who's traveling in search of her twin sister, who disappeared leaving nothing more than a native doll, the eponymous imp. Along the way she hooks up with a mobile film crew. They discover that ...
Style: erotic
Plot: sex scene, female nudity, mute, attempted rape, bare breasts, twin sister, woman, village, short skirt, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity, shower
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Snake Woman's Curse (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the ...
Style: psychedelic, mind bending, suspense, surreal, gothic ...
Plot: snake, vengeance, fiancee, virgin, rape, revenge, wedding, trippy, snake people, pagan, ghost, supernatural power ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers the Teriyaki ...
Style: psychotronic, bleak, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, family curse, haunted house, hunting, loss, chase, exorcism, vengeance, paranormal investigation, family relations, good versus evil, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Winter Witch (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: At the behest of her boss, journalist Ingrid returns to her ancestral home when several children are found slaughtered in nearby woodland. With the village suspecting the infamous Winter Witch, together with daughter Eleanor and estranged ...
Style: captivating, serious, dread, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: daughter, journalist, curse, winter, witch, grandmother granddaughter relationship, village, killing spree, grandmother, killings, investigative journalism, child murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: An effective little pinku affair, it tells of a lovely young teacher who heads off to teach fencing in a school in the countryside, only to run into a good deal of the expected rape and abuse.
Style: disturbing, queer horror, controversial
Plot: sex slave, sexual torture, sex scene, exploitation, violent, gang rape, pretty girl, high school, hanged man, bondage, drugged, janitor ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Cathy's Curse (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
Style: suspense, terrifying, independent film, psychotronic, bizarre
Plot: canuxploitation, supernatural, bad kids, evil child, occult, doll, fire, ghost, car accident, exploitation, car crash, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Medium (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Thailand, South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not be as benevolent as it first appears.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, dark, scary ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, medium, found footage, folklore, small town, curse, possessed, woods, black magic, sorcerer, witch, witchcraft ...
Time: 2020s
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Devil Fetus (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a couple purchases an antique vase at a market, the woman is possessed and killed by a demonic creature. Twelve years later, the demon returns to possess the woman's nephew and wreak more havoc.
Style: weird
Plot: paranormal, monster, birth, bad kids, sorcerer, slime, rape, necrophilia, curse, death of husband, german shepherd, fetus ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Red Spell Spells Red (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An evil dwarf sorcerer sealed in a stone coffin of good magicians. After many years, a television crew to the scene to investigate the legend, and happen to open the chest again ...
Plot: sorcery, animal cruelty, black magic, curse, ritual, sex scene, torture, machete, wizard, female nudity, possessed girl, surrealism ...
Place: borneo
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An elementary school teacher named Yui visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki who's been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrifying events that occurred in the Saeki household 10 years ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary ...
Plot: haunted house, curse, evil spirit, paranormal investigation, demonic possession, ghost, dark past, danger, paranormal activity, exorcism, supernatural, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, sexy female vampire, female orgasm, lesbian vampire, mysterious character, family curse, serial killer, dangerous attraction, village, fall in love, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s, 1930s, georgian era ...
Place: austria, europe, england, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.8
 344
Maya (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Ancient Mayan curse is awakened in the ancient temples in Mexico, and people are killed in strange and gory ways by an invisible force.
Style: suspense, slasher, mystical
Plot: human sacrifice, black magic, curse, demon, witch doctor, small village, evil power, doctor, village, evil, female nudity, exploitation ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.1
 631
Cursed (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, spirit, woman in danger, curse, curses spells and rituals, survival, workplace, boss and employee, nightmare, obnoxious boss, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.2
 237
The Chanting 3 (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of youngsters is on a mission to Ujung Sedo, to find their missing friends in a haunting jungle. Along the way, they met Samantha who's in a personal mission to the a mystical village. They went across the dark woods, a deafening fog, ...
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, mystical, captivating ...
Plot: evil, fog, jungle, witch, curse, supernatural, secret, paranormal activity, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, paranormal investigator, mysterious disappearance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Corpse Prison: Part 1 (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: woman, villager, remote location, countryside, threat, professor, body horror, woman in danger, sexploitation, village, female nudity, survival horror ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, gold, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, dead, revenge, local legend, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, tense, serious ...
Plot: afterlife, burned alive, curse, mansion, ghost, murder, mutant, cosmic horror, haunted house, supernatural ability, imaginary, warlock ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the fifth film to feature Spanish actor Paul Naschy as Waldemar the Wolfman. Here he comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into ...
Style: grindhouse, gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, werewolf, lycanthropy, wolfman, mad doctor, wolf, underground, monster, murder, attempted rape, female nudity, decapitation ...
Time: 70s
Place: transylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Black Magic Part II (1976)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A doctor suspects black magic on his hospital after experiencing some bizarre incidents and sends for two doctors (who are a couple) from Hong Kong. The wife is very skeptical and places volunteer for a spell. It became obvious that here is an evil ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: zombie, kung fu, monster, sorcery, undead, supernatural horror, supernatural, evil, female pubic hair, female nudity, peeping tom, ghost ...
Place: southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Amityville Curse (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends purchase an infamous home with the intention of flipping it, only to discover a deadly paranormal presence emanating from within the house.
Plot: seance, evil spirit, group of friends, nightmare, possession, curse, suicide, male female relationship, death of friend, hearing voices, paranormal phenomena, demonic possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Return of the Dead (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale
Plot: ghost, zombie, necrophilia, lake, sexy nurse, dead prostitute, wish fulfillment, death of son, omnibus, aphrodisiac, back from the dead, grave robber ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Big Monster War (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, bizarre
Plot: ghost, supernatural, vampire, monster, demon, folk horror, pagan, underdog, folklore, creature, sexploitation, samurai ...
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
Style: atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, curse, afterlife, supernatural, haunted house, danger, haunted by the past, rottweiler, domestic disturbance, mysterious character, supernatural ability, vampire ...
Time: 18th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.3
 636
Teke Teke (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's lower half walking aimlessly ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: urban legend, evil spirit, high school student, mythical creature, paranormal investigation, ghost, struggle for survival, danger, murder, teenager, violence, curse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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