Movies like The Mad Monk

If you like "The Mad Monk" you are looking for anthology movies about / with medicine, obsession, monk, ranch, curse, debt and wish fulfillment themes of Horror genre shot in Mexico.
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The Mad Monk (1984)
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The Mad Monk (1984)
Original name: El Monje Loco
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two shot on video short stories of the macabre.
Style: anthology
Plot: medicine, obsession, monk, ranch, curse, debt, wish fulfillment, accidental death, back from the dead, husband wife relationship, organ, guilt, organist, falling from height, death of son, mascot, prayer, origin story, manic laughter
Place: mexico

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Most similar movies to The Mad Monk

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, anthology and scary films with plots about curse, supernatural, blood, monster, supernatural power, murder and husband wife relationship mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like The Mad Monk: Return of the Dead (1979), Demon Hunter (1987), Barrio Tales (2012), Mark of the Devil (2020), The Wailer 2 (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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95%
 5.5
 77
Demon Hunter (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: At the highest place in Tarahumaran mountain, a Shaman was brutally murdered. The investigation leads detective Aguilar to ask for help to a veterinarian and a priest, to find out that the crime is just the beginning of a series of brutal murders by ...
Style: satanic
Plot: werewolf, folk horror, wolfman, priest, bicycle, burned alive, mayor, fire, doctor, witch doctor, grave, monastery ...
Place: mexico
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83%
 3.9
 495
Barrio Tales (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
Style: anthology, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: murder, teenager, drug, cannibalism, supernatural horror, chicano, revenge, town
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Mark of the Devil (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An exorcist priest meets a family that has a daughter who is pursued by a demon.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, exciting, rough
Plot: satanism, curse, priest, possession, sister sister relationship, obsession, exorcist, devil worship, suicide, australian outback, devil, demonic possession ...
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 5.2
 103
The Wailer 2 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, mystical
Plot: paranormal phenomena, mysticism, legends and myths, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, legend, paranormal, supernatural, curse, urban legend, monster
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Mummy: Resurrection (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When an infamous "cursed" Egyptian sarcophagus falls into the hands of unscrupulous huckster Everett Randolph, he becomes obsessed with resurrecting the mummified princess held within it.
Style: bleak, scary, suspenseful, serious
Plot: mummy, princess, curse, obsession, monster, cursed, sarcophagus, evil, resurrection, curses spells and rituals
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.0
 4K
Belzebuth (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of ...
Style: scary, detective, neo noir, gothic horror, tense ...
Plot: satanism, demon, supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, sacrifice, good versus evil, dangerous attraction, dark secret, orphan, devil worship, blood ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 2.9
 114
Dead Teenagers (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: On a dark Autumn eve, a college student finds a mysterious book in his campus library. Within its pages, he finds four gruesome tales of ghosts, werewolves, vampires and the unknown.
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, suspense, independent film
Plot: obsession, hitchhiking, paranoia, blood, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, library, ghost, diary, lycanthropy, vampire, nightmare ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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XX (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA, Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Style: anthology, suspense, christmas horror, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: transformation, refusing to eat, single mother, birthday party, starvation, birthday present, group of friends, supernatural, fear, secret, exploitation, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Devil's Revenge (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John Brock is a down-on-his-luck archaeologist who returns from an expedition to the caves of rural Kentucky after unsuccessfully trying to locate a mysterious relic that his family has sought for generations. Upon his return, John starts to see ...
Plot: mythical creature, curse, library, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, punched in the face, elevator, relic, heart attack, raft, farm, cave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Barbarous Mexico (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Eight tales based on the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends, an anthology of haunting stories woven into the fabric of the Mexican culture, some told through the centuries and some new, but all equally frightening. Bogeymen, ...
Style: anthology, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, dark ...
Plot: urban legend, folklore, legend, rape, day of the dead, creature, murder, ritual, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship, blood, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 496
Curandero (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
Style: bleak, scary, rough, suspense, perverse ...
Plot: supernatural, black magic, occult, supernatural power, satanism, faith, police, sacrifice, fear, exorcism, witchcraft, evil ...
Place: mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story: "O Estrano Mundo de Zé do Caixão" tells three macabre tales, all delightfully demented, perverted and grotesque.
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, weird
Plot: doll, virus, omnibus, monster, exploitation, torture, necrophilia, instinct, cannibal, obsession, love, doctor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Little Richie Bridgestone (whose parents are divorced) goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf. He spends the ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: werewolf, full moon, psychiatrist, sheriff, hippie, boy, poem, car, forest, police, husband wife relationship, father ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Awakening (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Style: suspenseful, scary, intense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: mummy, reincarnation, obsession, curse, pregnancy, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, heroic mission, spirit, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, year 1961, 60s
Place: egypt, middle east, usa, africa, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Satanic Hispanics (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the ...
Style: thrilling, mystic, suspenseful, psychological, anthology ...
Plot: demon, mythical creature, hoax, paranormal phenomena, problem, mysticism, paranormal, paranormal activity, virus, myth, racism, legend ...
Place: el paso texas, mexico, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 419
Karma (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When recent college grad Manny has trouble making ends meet, his father-in-law offers him a job evicting delinquent tenants. Manny soon finds himself unleashing a karma demon which stalks him at every turn.
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending
Plot: debt, vengeance, graphic violence, backfire, negotiation, saving a life, society, redemption, danger, couple relations, good versus evil, human nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 298
Soul Thieves (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1815, during the Mexican Independence movement, a group of soldiers fighting for Spain take shelter at a ranch where a group of sisters support the other band, the insurgents who are fighting for freedom.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, scary
Plot: death, witchcraft, zombie, witch, rape and revenge, feminism, decapitation, supernatural power, supernatural, revenge, chase, killings ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Demonoid: Messenger of Death (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a ...
Style: slasher, retro, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic ...
Plot: satanism, supernatural, murder, supernatural horror, gambling, devil worship, priest, nurse, demonic possession, plastic surgeon, demon, church ...
Time: 17th century, year 1981
Place: mexico, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Possessed (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. ...
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, mystical
Plot: demonic possession, supernatural, obsession, exorcism, demon, relationships, satanic ritual, cursed, ritual, mysticism, supernatural ability, curse ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.6
 622
Scare Us (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A chilling horror anthology comprising five short stories, penned by an unlikely group of aspiring writers, in Sugarton - a small town plagued by the apparent return of an infamous serial killer, dubbed "Cutthroat." They've come to ...
Style: anthology, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: maniac, serial killer, characters killed one by one, killing spree, murder, disguise, homicidal maniac, brutality, youth, violence, threat, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.2
 143
Crazed (1978)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions.
Style: slasher
Plot: child abuse, obsession, hidden corpse, woman, nudity, psychopath, voyeur, bare breasts, drowning, epilepsy, accidental death, dead girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.9
 604
The Witching (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: With Halloween only hours away, the members of a popular podcast, The Witching Hour, gather to swap scary stories in the dark. But they bargain for more than just ratings when they venture to the site where the Woodland Valley Witch was brutally ...
Style: anthology, bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense ...
Plot: witch, halloween, devil, psychic, supernatural, evil witch, supernatural power, supernatural ability, killings, characters in danger, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 3.7
 313
Blood Bath (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.
Style: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
Plot: exploitation, artist, coin, supernatural power, magic, dinner party, occult, martial arts, director, time travel, night, haunting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Actress Shirley Latanya Jones returns from the director's first film (Black Devil Doll from Hell) to be in front of Turner's camcorder, and reads two spooky tales to the ghost of her dead son, Bobby. The second story features a zombie ...
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: killer clown, clown, black, blaxploitation, amusement park, blood, corpse, ghost, evil clown, dead body, gore, throat slitting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Vault of Horror (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style: anthology, surprise ending, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, painting, greed, buried alive, strangled to death, dream within a dream, artist, brother sister relationship, hanged man, supernatural power, husband wife relationship, female vampire ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, haiti, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.6
 1K
Evil Eye (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nala, a thirteen-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside, to try to find a cure for her little sister's mysterious illness - But she'll soon find her granny is not exactly what ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot: witchcraft, witch, illness, curse, old dark house, teenage girl, secret, supernatural horror, grandmother, coven, folk horror, pumpkin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.3
 239
El Amarre (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A woman has a crush with a coworker and makes a ritual to make him fall in love with her, but things got a little out of hand when she messes with forces no one can control.
Style: psychotronic, rough, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: crush, witchcraft, curse, affair, physical abuse, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship, couple relations, violence, murder, supernatural, brutality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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 ⇓
34%
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