Movies like Spooky Town

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Spooky Town (1999)
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Spooky Town (1999)
Original name: Phantom Town
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: Canada, USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a sixteen year-old boy and his two young siblings set off on a quest to find their missing parents, their search leads them to a ghost town in the middle of the desert. They soon discover that this is no ordinary tourist spot. In fact, according to the maps, it doesn't exist at all! Finding their way into this mysterious place, the kids must confront the sinister force that dwells beneath it in order to rescue their parents - and save themselves.
Style: spooky, independent film, wild
Audience: kids
Plot: desert, youth, family relations, mind control, ghost town, cop, boy strangling, teenager, party, rock music, sheriff, brother sister relationship, little girl, child protagonist, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, slime, arrest, brother brother relationship, doppelganger, police officer, child, fangs
Time: 90s
Keyword: fang

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Most similar movies to Spooky Town

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, scary, suspenseful and serious films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, murder, desert, blood and family relations mostly in Horror, Western and Comedy genres. Some movies like Spooky Town: Aliens in the Wild, Wild West (1999), Black Noon (1971), Sideshow (2000), Fear of the Dark (2003), Witchouse (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Aliens in the Wild, Wild West (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a UFO crash lands nearby, it's up to a couple of kids to save the aliens from the local townspeople.
Style: funny
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, alien, youth, buddies, friendly alien, vacation, family vacation, ghost town, ufo, wild west, outer space, rebellious daughter ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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95%
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Black Noon (1971)
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A traveling minister and his wife are quietly menaced by a devil cult in the Old West. By the time the Good Reverend figures out what's going on it may be too late to stop the evil
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, spooky, wild
Plot: witchcraft, occult, folk horror, witch, cowboy, pagan cult, preacher, gunslinger, small western town, small town, cat, goat ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona
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86%
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Sideshow (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, underground horror, suspense ...
Plot: carnival, supernatural, danger, youth, kids in trouble, kidnapping, gory, curses spells and rituals, exploitation, freakshow, killer clown, amusement park ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Fear of the Dark (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Twelve year old Ryan Billings has been diagnosed with an acute fear of the dark. He spends each night lying awake in torment, waiting and watching as the evil in the darkness grows stronger, feeding off his fear. His older brother Dale, suspects ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: darkness, supernatural, danger, family relations, ghost, brother brother relationship, childhood, child, youth, old dark house, boy strangling, scared ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Witchouse (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 72 min.
Story: On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, scary, spooky ...
Plot: witch, resurrection, evil witch, possessed woman, supernatural ability, supernatural, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, vengeance, danger, youth, demonic possession ...
Time: 90s
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53%
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Blood River (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: desert, survival, danger, couple relations, isolation, confined, pursuit, murder, trippy, extreme, serial killer, cowboy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Happy Hunting (2017)
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, twisted, scary ...
Plot: alcoholic, small town, desert, survival, hunting, hunter, sniper, paternity revealed, revenge, drug use, killer, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure.
Style: dark, independent film, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: american civil war, native american, exploitation, native, treasure hunt, ghost, civil war, witch, cowboy, supernatural, soldier, diamonds ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Haunted (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In Arizona during the Civil War, a woman is accused of witchcraft, tied to a horse and left to die in the desert. One hundred years later, the descendants of the woman's accusers start being killed off, and the townspeople suspect the woman has ...
Style: independent film, wild
Plot: witchcraft, arizona desert, civil war, possession, native, exploitation, redsploitation, haunting, desert, terror, supernatural power, topless woman ...
Time: 1860s, 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Vampire's Tale (2009)
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the Old West, the assassination of an ageing cowboy is thwarted by a sultry vampiress, the would-be killer left for dead in the dust. A hundred years later an ancient obsidian mirror, long unearthed from the Mesopotamian desert, is liberated from ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, good versus evil, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, family in danger, reincarnation, farm, rivalry, murder, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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44%
The Birds II: Land's End (1994)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Birds go berserk and turn against mankind.
Style: natural horror, dark, serious, psychological, scary ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bird attack, killer animal, animal attack, bird, creature, nature, villain, exploitation, insect, lighthouse, death of son, dangerous animal ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Enter the Devil (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Enter the Devil is a great American-made B horror movie. People are disappearing in the wastelands. An occult researcher discovers that a devil-worshipping cult is responsible. Her inquiries lead her into great danger. Who can she trust? Very well ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, satanic, independent film, psychotronic ...
Plot: folk horror, cowboy, devil, occult, witchcraft, snake, pagan cult, coven, abandoned mine, religious cult, deer hunting, attempted rape ...
Place: new mexico, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Shriek (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided ...
Style: slasher, scary, queer horror, independent film, serious ...
Plot: monster, hospital, lesbian, college, beauty, psychopath, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, escapades, rivalry, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror (1990)
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, scary, dark, psychotronic ...
Plot: bounty hunter, monster, folk horror, cowboy, prairie, campfire story, revenge from beyond the grave, indian burial ground, wild west, nudity, playing footsie, buried alive ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 5K
Clownhouse (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, bleak, controversial ...
Plot: clown, escaped mental patient, murder, child in peril, brother brother relationship, circus, chase, evil clown, halloween, boy, killer clown, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
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37%
Mad at the Moon (1992)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.
Style: crying, independent film, period drama, wild
Plot: werewolf, cowboy, lycanthropy, wedding, supernatural being, male full rear nudity, bride and groom, unrequited love, wedding ceremony, woman wearing a nightshirt, barber, wild west ...
Time: 90s
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37%
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, danger, criminal heroes, gory, female vampire, imaginary, deadly creature, heroes, cowboy, arrested ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: usa
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35%
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and ...
Style: spaghetti western, grindhouse, cult classic, euro western, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, gays and lesbians, wild west, folk horror, underground, violent, betrayal, gang, old west, small town, desert, outlaw ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Watcher in the Woods (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan ...
Style: spooky, psychotronic
Audience: horror for children
Plot: ghost, witch, halloween, supernatural, mirror, teenage girl, old woman, broken mirror, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, country house ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Patagonia Treasure Trail (2016)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A present day Western set in the environmentally delicate and politically volatile territory of southern Arizona. A young professional musician, Birdie, returns home to rest and contemplate her future, but finds she must negotiate old family ...
Style: independent film
Plot: environment, camping, endangered species, horse riding, family conflict, desert, family relations, arizona desert, mother daughter relationship
Place: arizona
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35%
Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
Plot: zombie, night of the living dead, living dead, zombie attack, cemetery, gas station, cop, redneck, anniversary, radiation, soldier, fire ...
Time: 90s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
I Was a Teenage Strangler (1997)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Softcore princess Misty Mundae (Chantal, The Rage) in her first film role ever! A swingin party where ghastly teens indulge in liquor, mind-altering substances and acts of lewdness, defilement and promiscuity...A sexually depraved lunatic on the ...
Style: controversial
Plot: woman peeing, gory, serial killer, jukebox, house party, murder, rape, strangulation, blood, party, sex, lesbian sex ...
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34%
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Totem (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Six people find themselves inexplicably transported to a remote cabin that is surrounded by an invisible barrier. In a nearby graveyard, they discover an ancient, carved stone monument that they dub a "totem pole." Soon, they find ...
Style: independent film
Plot: human sacrifice, puppet, monster, puppet master, creature, totem, living dead, blood, american indian, mind control, woods, killer toy ...
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34%
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The Ransom of Red Chief (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two hoboes strike on a get-rich quick scheme to kidnap an overly-energetic 9 year old son of a local banker. Based on the classic story by O'Henry.
Style: funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, kidnapping, kidnapped boy, danger, criminal heroes, terrorism, goofy hero, disorder, family relations, chaos and mayhem, family life, woods ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Talisman (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: As the millenium draws near, an evil being awakens. Fused to an ancient Talisman for centuries -- Theriel, the Black Angel is summoned from his resting place to usher in the end of the world. The ghastly messenger must claim seven human sacrifices ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, serious, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot: monster, gay, new year, homoeroticism, ritual, demon, apocalypse, human sacrifice, bullying, troubled teen, boys' school, private school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Frankenstein and Me (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: spooky, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, surprise ending
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot: zombie, frankenstein, halloween, frankenstein's monster, werewolf, vampire, friends, family relations, obsession, imaginary, supernatural, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, missing child, occult, supernatural ability, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, danger, family problems, doll, puppet ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, suspense, funny ...
Plot: peeping tom, driving, satanism, surrealism, dog, camp, master, occult, bad guy wins, sacrifice, polygamy, family in danger ...
Time: 60s
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Pillow Party Massacre (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a bullying incident leads to tragedy, four former High school friends reconnect at a vacation home where a maniacal killer stalks the night.
Style: slasher, slasher horror, dread, scary, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, teenage girl, adolescent girl, massacre, haunted by the past, teenage protagonist, adolescence, past, teenage life, party, blood, troubled past ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: werewolf, lycanthropy, full moon, scientific experiment, supernatural, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, serial killer, frankenstein, wolf, teenage girl, frankenstein's monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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