Movies like Lover of the Monster
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Lover of the Monster (1974)
233
Original name: Le amanti del mostro
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 boyfriend, starts messing around and somehow turns himself into a slobbering, sex-crazed monster!
Style:
suspense, gothic, gothic horror
Plot:
rape, doctor, murder, castle, jekyll and hyde, murderer, forest, jealousy, scientific experiment, bare breasts, drifter, jealous husband, failed marriage, husband wife relationship, killing spree, hanging, murder trial, female pubic hair, tramp, husband rapes wife, female nudity, rage, italian gothic, death by hanging, rampage
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Most similar movies to Lover of the Monster
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic and suspense films with plots about murder, castle, supernatural, italian gothic, female nudity, vampire and death mostly in Horror and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Lover of the Monster: Evil Face (1974), The Ghost (1963), Crypt of the Vampire (1964), The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963), The Doll of Satan (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
416
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of ...
Style:
suspense, dark, psychological horror, gothic, retro ...
Plot:
mad scientist, disfigured face, medical experiment, murder, obsession, disfigurement, macabre, sadism, violent, cosmetic surgery, body horror, obsessive love ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
95%
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:
41%
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:
41%
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:
40%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Elizabeth travels to the family castle to hear her uncle's will. Once there, she encounters a crazy woman in a wheelchair, a murderer and has nightmares about the legendary ghost who is said to be in the castle. As if that were not bad enough, ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror
Plot:
folk horror, erotica, inheritance, castle, murder, dark and stormy night, death of uncle, impostor, governess, blonde, fistfight, dog attack ...
Similarity:
38%
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:
34%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
Plot:
vampire, countess, female nudity, decapitation, dracula, terror, paranoia, murder, bloodbath, castle, killing an animal, big natural breasts ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot:
vampire, ghost, edgar allan poe, snake, castle, dracula, reporter, murder, psychopath, couples, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late countess. In the village she meets a reporter who is investigating ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic
Plot:
feral man, reincarnation, countess, castle, victimization, manor, murder, father daughter relationship, basement, recluse, cobweb, strength ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A beautiful young woman travels to a remote estate to seek employment as a biochemist for Baron Janos Dalmar. She finds herself attracted to him, so immerses herself in her work to suppress her lusty desires. A rash of rather brutal murders occurs ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, psychological horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
castle, torture chamber, supernatural, demon, sexual abuse, obsession, seduction, exploitation, sexual obsession, isolation, family secret, nightmare ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
On their wedding night, a newlywed couple find themselves menaced by a bloodthirsty vampire.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, castle, wedding, female vampire, 666, occult, monster, dracula, pitchfork, couples, imaginary, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Style:
dark, gothic, enigmatic, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vampire, death, blood, nosferatu, seduction, transformation, supernatural, fear, priest, seance, fall in love, vampire human love ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s
Place:
venice, italy, israel
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, mad scientist, possessed woman, murder, infidelity, rivalry, haunted by the past, experiment gone awry, danger, vengeance, obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1800s, 1870s, 19th century
Similarity:
31%
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:
29%
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:
29%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner ...
Style:
medical horror, classic horror, gothic horror, grindhouse, gothic ...
Plot:
jekyll and hyde, mad scientist, split personality, doctor, monster, murder, mad doctor, friendship, battles, disorder, supernatural, femme fatale ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1971
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Dracula 2012 is a 2013 Indian 3-D horror film directed by Vinayan, starring Sudheer Sukumaran, Prabhu, Monal Gajjar, Nassar, Shraddha Das and Thilakan. The film was shot in the Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil languages simultaneously, with additional ...
Style:
gothic, erotic, dread, bleak, gothic horror ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, erotica, killing, hotel, killing spree, honeymoon, male protagonist, murderer, murder, wife, hospital ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 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:
classic horror, grindhouse, gothic, gothic horror, suspense ...
Plot:
lycanthropy, jekyll and hyde, wolfman, werewolf, female nudity, attempted rape, mad doctor, wolf, underground, murder, monster, woman ...
Time:
70s
Place:
transylvania
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The 1800s: scholarly Karl Schiller believes he's found the ring of the Nibelungen, which holds great power. It's at Castle Dracula. His twin, Franz, a gambler, asks if vampires frighten Karl; Karl shows him an Egyptian amulet, which may ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, sexual ...
Plot:
vampire, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, master and servant, supernatural, woman in danger, murder, female nudity, amulet, macabre, folk horror, occult ...
Time:
19th century, 70s
Place:
europe, transylvania
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the day after Halloween. Jacopo and Duke wake up in the apartment of two girls: Lenka, the Czech Republic, and Elizabeth, English, both in Italy thanks to the Erasmus project. The dawn of that new day brings with it a big problem: ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
halloween, memory loss, murder mystery, murder, puzzle, secret, problem, memory lapse, death, murderer, uncover truth, amnesia ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jess Franco returns with another campy gore-fest featuring the strange goings-on in a tiny hamlet called Holfen. When women wind up knifed and gouged in the village, everyone thinks the deaths are due to a curse wielded by a cruel 17th century ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, suspense, splatter, twisted ...
Plot:
psychopath, reporter, sex maniac, murder of a nude woman, female nudity, murder, baron, multiple murder, nylons, fiance fiancee relationship, nudity, journalist ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gory remake of the Gaston Leroux classic story, only this time, the phantom is not disfigured, but a man who was raised by rats deep under the Paris Opera House.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, serious, emotional, stylized ...
Plot:
phantom of the opera, sex scene, obsession, obsessive love, opera singer, murder, police protection, serial killer, police shootout, secret passageway, opera, rat ...
Time:
19th century, year 1998, 90s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
26%
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439
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
Style:
suspense, supernatural thriller, sinister, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
possession, haunted house, ghost, revenge, supernatural, murder, macabre, afterlife, female protagonist, family secret, marriage, occult ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scare Zone is Oliver's pride and joy. Sure, it's just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he's put his heart and soul into it. The attraction is open for three nights only, and Oliver has brought back his old ...
Style:
suspense, slasher, gothic
Plot:
halloween, goth girl, serial killer, depression, amusement park, halloween party, haunted house, bat, pitchfork, cemetery, killer, chainsaw ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
Style:
gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, scary, semi serious ...
Plot:
frankenstein, mad scientist, monster, naked woman, bare breasts, sex scene, male nudity, skinny dipping, wild man, lgbt, voyeurism, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The new bride of a strange sculptor finds that many of her new husband's friends want her dead.
Style:
sinister, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, classic horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, wedding, female victim, manipulation, mistrust, paranoia, obsession, intimate, isolation, claustrophobia, paranoid, mysterious past ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had ...
Style:
medical horror, psychotronic, classic horror, suspense, gothic horror ...
Plot:
surgery, plastic surgery, fetish, macabre, monster, feral man, face, medical, father, murder, mad scientist, transplant ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1910s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The great inquisitor Ireneus Daninsky has Countess Bathory burned alive and her female followers hanged. Before perishing in the flames the countess puts a curse on Daninsky and his descendants. Four centuries later, Waldemar Daninsky accidentally ...
Style:
suspense, gothic, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hanged woman, werewolf, blind woman, lycanthropy, witch, monster, escaped killer, crazy, wolf, 666, wolfman, occult ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
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