Movies like Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft

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Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998)
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Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998)
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
Style: lovecraft, suspense, cerebral
Plot: monster, writers, book, inheritance, occult, dream, professor, nightmare, reality vs fantasy, reality versus fantasy, necronomicon, h.p. lovecraft, lovecraftian

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Most similar movies to Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, lovecraft, suspenseful and scary films with plots about supernatural, monster, occult, murder, danger, nightmare and deadly mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft: Cool Air (2006), Chilean Gothic (2000), The Gate (1987), Cthulhu (2000), Black Magic Mansion (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cool Air (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts ...
Style: suspense, lovecraft, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: cthulhu, occult, occult ritual, writer's life, mysticism, writers, old mansion, supernatural horror, supernatural, murder, narration, autism ...
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95%
Chilean Gothic (2000)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.
Style: lovecraft, suspense
Plot: journalist, artist, ghoul, artwork, death, truth
Place: santiago chile
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The Gate (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally ...
Style: scary, slasher, satanic, suspense, splatter ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: demon, monster, supernatural, zombie, boy, occult, coming of age, child protagonist, suburbs, suburban life, child in peril, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
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73%
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Cthulhu (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In Arkham, Dan Upton (Adam Soames) is worried that his friend Edward Derby (James Payne) is being led into a cult like group by his new girlfriend Asenath Waite (Melissa Georgiou). Meanwhile, Inspector LeGrasse (Paul Douglas)investigates a spate of ...
Style: lovecraft, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: cthulhu, cosmic horror, young adult, body swapping, surrealism, violence, death, switching bodies, university student, ritual, occult, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Black Magic Mansion (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An aging magician harboring a terrible occult secret and his daughter are taken hostage in their isolated mansion by teenage scumbags need- ing a place to hide out. When the captors refuse to listen to the magician's dire warning to release him ...
Style: lovecraft, slasher, retro, suspense
Plot: haunted house, monster, mansion, estate, cthulhu, daughter, police, group, drug, back from the dead, murder, drowning ...
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69%
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
Style: lovecraft, serious, scary, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot: monster, ghost, cosmic horror, strong violent content, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, ancient mystery, danger, nudity, demon, creature, witch ...
Time: 90s, 17th century
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68%
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Residue (2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
Style: neo noir, psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: monster, supernatural, father daughter relationship, hallucination, supernatural power, occult, private detective, mythical creature, nightmare, book of magic
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64%
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Shatterbrain (1991)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the ...
Style: lovecraft, detective, retro, creepy, suspense ...
Plot: cosmic horror, cthulhu, monster, private detective, zombie, supernatural, occult, atmosphere, undead, good guys win, supernatural horror, witch ...
Time: 90s, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Convent (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
Style: gothic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, stylized
Plot: falsely accused, convent, obsession, demon, nightmare, witch, female protagonist, paranormal, fear, occult, nun, possession ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also ...
Style: lovecraft, surreal, art house, psychological horror, independent film ...
Plot: monster, creature, supernatural, nightmare, dream, nightmare comes true, undead, creature feature, college, decapitation, surrealism, insomnia ...
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62%
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Deep Dark (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Hermann considers suicide until he finds a strange talking hole in the wall that has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or become his worst nightmare.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, monster, desire, supernatural power, characters in danger, killings, death, evil, supernatural ability, society, rescue, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following ...
Style: lovecraft, anthology, atmospheric, scary, psychological ...
Plot: legends and myths, cthulhu, cosmic horror, book, occult ritual, serial killer, motel, creature, monster, body horror, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 90s, year 1932, 1930s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
LovecraCked! The Movie (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With tongue planted firmly in cheek, our story follows the exploits of a bumbling investigative journalist as he struggles to discover the truth behind enigmatic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and his mysterious past. Along the way strange and macabre ...
Style: anthology, lovecraft, dark fairy tale, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: zombie, cthulhu, sex scene, female nudity, sexploitation, sex, blood, exploitation, terror, reanimation, occult, supernatural ...
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53%
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Reel Nightmare (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Three beautiful, vengeful witches awakened by an ancient book, the Necronomicon, bring production of a film in their old family home to a deadly halt.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, slasher ...
Plot: witch, supernatural power, rivalry, supernatural, occult, death, murder, family relations, strong female lead, ghost, spell, magic ...
Place: new england
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53%
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style: surreal, scary, creepy, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: voodoo, supernatural, zombie, hallucination, superstition, surrealism, black magic, buried alive, religion, anthropologist, gory, occult ...
Time: 80s, year 1978, year 1985, 70s
Place: haiti, caribbean, boston
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50%
Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
Style: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, lovecraft
Plot: zombie, edgar allan poe, haunted house, monster, paranormal, living dead, mansion, supernatural, occult, curse, mad scientist, doctor ...
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47%
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Goblin (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in it's path.
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, captivating, tense ...
Plot: halloween, village, curses spells and rituals, danger, small town, urban legend, violence, monster, evil fairy, best friend, frame up, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Dark Heritage (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An uncredited adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear." After a violent thunderstorm, mutilated bodies are found at a Louisiana campground. Investigative reporter Clint Harrison uncovers a dark local legend about the ...
Style: lovecraft, slasher, independent film
Plot: cosmic horror, monster, journalist, camp, reporter, feral man, news reporter, camping, news report, abandoned house, lightning, woods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Eraserhead (1977)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, experimental ...
Plot: surrealism, nightmare, insanity, existentialism, baby, psychology, art, dream, psychosis, eccentricity, factory, electricity ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
Style: lovecraft, gothic, slasher, gothic horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: spider, arachnophobia, occult, nightmare, macabre, folk horror, religious cult, superpower, ritual murder, catacomb, cobweb, hanging ...
Place: budapest
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44%
The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations.
Style: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, serious, scary ...
Plot: monster, ghost, woman in danger, cthulhu, rapid aging, occult ritual, danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, cosmic horror, graphic violence, macabre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
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43%
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Despiser (2003)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Having just been fired and dumped by his wife, life couldn't possibly be worse for independent artist GORDON HAUGE (Mark Redfield)--until he wrecks his car and finds himself in purgatory that is. Once there, he is attacked by fanatic Shadowmen ...
Style: suspense, independent film, 3d animation
Plot: landscape, purgatory, invasion
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42%
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Slaader is a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family. Edward Eischel, a young intern, sees something more than just an inbred monster in this new inmate, however. Instead, he sees him ...
Style: lovecraft, serious, suspenseful, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot: mental disorder, doctor, supernatural, obsession, murder, mental institution, ancient mystery, danger, nudity, blood, ghost, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Dunwich Horror (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood ...
Style: lovecraft, suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, mutant, parallel world, ancient mystery, curses spells and rituals, danger, legends and myths, destiny, escapades, occult, cthulhu, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped ...
Style: scary, creepy, splatter, suspense, gothic ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, confined, blood, halloween, apocalypse, monster, family in danger, danger ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Monster Portal (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cult is about to waken H.P. Lovecraft's most feared creature.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, lovecraft
Plot: ritual sacrifice, ritual, paranormal phenomena, giant monster, demon, monster, satanic cult, supernatural horror, occult ritual, occult, curses spells and rituals, undercover ...
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37%
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Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: lovecraft, scary, suspense, surprise ending, satanic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, cthulhu, chase, monster, supernatural, small town, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, nightmare, ritual, human sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
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36%
The Loreley's Grasp (1973)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding ...
Style: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, beautiful
Plot: murder, reptile, boarding school, supernatural horror, virus, creature feature, monster, myth, aquatic humanoid, creature, river, girls' school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of ...
Style: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, stylized ...
Plot: cthulhu, ancient mystery, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, cosmic horror, monster, kaiju, giant monster, obsession, secrets, existentialism ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 19th century, 20th century
Place: rhode island, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A university student is pursued by a man with a demonic secret.
Style: scary, surprise ending, satanic, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot: occult, cosmic horror, good versus evil, cthulhu, supernatural power, professor, villain played by lead actor, grandfather grandson relationship, small town, library, human sacrifice, hypnosis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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