Movies like The Brain Leeches

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The Brain Leeches (1978)
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The Brain Leeches (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Invading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town. The head leech is a wad of black tinfoil with a couple of white thumbtacks for eyes. Others are spidery-like rubber things pulled along by strings.
Style: independent film, amateur film
Plot: alien, zombie, doctor, wrestler, nightclub, mind control, alien invasion

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychotronic, suspenseful and scary films with plots about alien, alien invasion, monster, ufo, creature, deadly and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Brain Leeches: Unseen Evil 2 (2004), Deep Space (1988), The Alien Within (1995), The Alien Factor (1978), Frankenstein Island (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Unseen Evil 2 (2004)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After a series of brutal, unexplained murders in a remote forest, a rogue military unit is recruited to hunt for whoever - or whatever - has rendered the attacks. In order to carry out the investigation, they need the help of the only survivor, ...
Plot: alien, creature feature, creature, alien invasion, monster, mercenary, invisible
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95%
Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A small town is sealed in a electric forcefield by a blood thirsty rampaging killer cyborg alien and it's up to some towns folk and the sheriff's dept to stop it!
Plot: spaceship, alien, escape, female sheriff, cyborgs, multiple murder, doctor, biker, gunfight, bikini
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 4.5
 1K
Deep Space (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, technology gone awry, alien invasion, creature feature, outer space, rescue, mutant, alien encounter, rivalry, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Alien Within (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Crew of an undersea mining platform falls prey to mysterious and dangerous parasite. The parasite has the ability to affect people's minds, so survivors can't be certain who is safe and who is infected.
Plot: underwater, scientist, alien parasite, alien, ship, exploitation, space opera, tentacle, sea, alien possession, mind control, alien invasion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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The Alien Factor (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
Style: independent film, horror comedy
Plot: alien, alien invasion, ufo, guts, invasion, gory, deadly creature, exploitation, creature, woods, stranger, automobile ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
Style: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film
Plot: zombie, frankenstein, monster, frankenstein's monster, exploitation, creature, lost soul, alien, invasion, desert island, jungle, dracula ...
Time: year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Aliens Are Coming (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An alien mother ship hovering in Earth's atmosphere is the base for an attempted alien invasion of Earth.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, distopia, spacecraft, colonization, desert, alien abduction, extraterrestrial, alien, glowing eyes
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Alien Terminator (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Five miles below the Earth's surface, a group of scientists is working in self-imposed isolation, perfecting a series of DNA experiments that could literally change the world. But when one of those experiments goes awry, it unleashes a nearly ...
Style: independent film
Plot: terminator, alien invasion, creature feature, space opera, fear, nudity, research, female nudity, alien, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Creature (1985)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ ...
Style: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, space, creature, alien invasion, creature feature, monster, gory, zombie, exploitation, alien abduction, virus, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marines on a deserted island are ordered to disfuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
Style: classic horror, independent film
Plot: alien, monster, alien invasion, creature feature, ufo, revenge, alien monster, lost soul, island, alien abduction, biopunk, exploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Alien Dead (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: swamp, redneck, zombie, alien, skinny dipping, eaten alive, voyeur, hillbilly, teenager, female nudity, monster, ufo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.0
 21K
Body Snatchers (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, exciting, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien invasion, evil alien, alien, soldier, toxic, research, zombie, emotionless, invasion, teenage life, military, monster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: alabama, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems...
Style: independent film, offbeat, scary, serious, psychotronic
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, space opera, monster, venus the planet, mind control, radio, cave, satellite, secret weapon, flying saucer ...
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Mutilations (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A high school science teacher takes his students on a field trip to see a UFO sighting. What they didn't expect, was that it was a flying saucer that crashed a farm house, and an alien predator feeds on humans, killing each student one by one!
Style: splatter
Plot: alien invasion, alien, monster, stop motion, cattle, teenage protagonist, crash landing, farmer, astronomer, farmhouse, evil alien, high school student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Not of This Earth (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
Style: tech noir, independent film, psychotronic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien, vampire, exploitation, invasion, alien invasion, weakness, heroes, race against time, danger, getting home, space and aliens, save the world ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult classic, suspense, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, robot, epidemic, survival horror, post apocalyptic, evil robot, dystopia ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Biohazard (1985)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Alien monster uses a psychic to try to take over the earth.
Style: retro, grindhouse, independent film, corny
Plot: monster, alien, creature, alien abduction, psychic, exploitation, teleportation, lust, corpse, scientist, blood, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Planets Around Us (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An alien race sends cyborgs--made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet--to Earth to help pave the way for an invasion.
Style: mysterious, psychotronic
Plot: alien, monster, space opera, ufo, cyborgs, alien invasion, son, airplane crash, humanoid robot, spacecraft, hypnosis, alien robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities ...
Style: intense, suspenseful, serious, mockbuster, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, survival, space travel, save the world, introspection, heroic mission, danger, supernatural, dystopian future, mars ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two doctors are trying to stop a rampant epidemic of zombieism. They fend off zombies spilling many a gallon of blood in the process.
Style: bloody, medical horror, splatter
Plot: zombie, living dead, gory, forest, decapitation, dismemberment, female nudity, doctor, blood, hospital, chainsaw, airplane accident ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
Style: independent film, semi serious, scary, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, vampire, alien invasion, alien, paranormal, fear, exploitation, ufo, experiment gone awry, military life, countryside, gory ...
Time: 80s
Place: austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.7
 746
Demonwarp (1988)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spooky, bizarre ...
Plot: bigfoot, alien, zombie, monster, sasquatch, alien invasion, trapped in a building, ufo, giant monster, animal attack, creature, forest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Foreboding (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Miyuki tells Etsuko that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to her home, there is only her father there. Etsuko takes her to the hospital, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of 'family'.
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure
Plot: alien invasion, doctor, husband wife relationship, alien, japanese woman, pride, buried alive, physician, moon, wife, guide, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, danger, experiment gone awry, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.2
 2K
The Dark (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy ...
Style: retro, detective, slasher, twist ending, psychotronic ...
Plot: alien, exploitation, murder, father, monster, police, invasion, creature feature, supernatural, ufo, telekinesis, psychic ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Invasion for Flesh and Blood (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Something strange is afoot in the suburbs of New Jersey! Carnivorous entities from out of this world have invaded the Garden State, seeking out the tastiest dish in the entire universe: human flesh! Now only a gang of burnt-out metalheads and one ...
Style: independent film, spoof
Plot: alien, monster, creature feature, creature, voyeur, nudity, androids, murder, female nudity, murder of a nude woman, peeping tom, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Welcome to Willits (2016)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. When a ...
Style: slasher, bleak, exciting, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug dealer, alien, ufo, drugged, serial killer, maniac, innocent person killed, forest, wilderness, psychopath, dysfunctional couple, space ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Seedpeople (1992)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Style: dark, independent film, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: monster, alien, creature feature, small town, alien invasion, alien disguised as human, little creatures, creature, tiny, body horror, disguise, alien possession ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Intruder Within (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Drillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they accidentaly brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature. Chad Everett and Jennifer Warren risk their lives to stop it.
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, gothic horror
Plot: monster, sea, alien abduction, winter, giant monster, alien invasion, terror, oil rig, rape, characters killed one by one, killing spree, raped by monster ...
Time: prehistory
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic ...
Plot: alien, evil alien, alien invasion, alien contact, mind control, deadly creature, ufo, monster, space and aliens, brutality, justice, space ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: iowa, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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