Movies like The Laughing Dead

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The Laughing Dead (1989)
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The Laughing Dead (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Zombies, demons, and a mad doctor await a bus-load of folks looking for a tour of Aztec ruins. Father O'Sullivan is a Catholic priest who has lost his faith in God and who cannot forget the nun with whom he once had an affair (and a son). O'Sullivan serves as tour guide for archaeological student Cal, New Agers Wilbur and Clarisse Lemming, runaway Laurie, and tourists Dozois and Frost on a bus trip to Mexico. No one is more surprised than O'Sullivan when his love, Tessie, also boards the bus with her bratty son Ivan. In Mexico, Cal reveals his knowledge of a crucial ancient text, just in time for the Day of the Dead festivities. Meanwhile, evil Dr. Um-tzec is planning an apotheosis for himself that will culminate in his incarnation as the Death God, and what he needs to accomplish this is the hearts of sacrificial children ... lots and lots of hearts. While Father O'Sullivan grapples with the emotions of seeing Tessie again, he is approached by Dr. Um-tzec to perform an exorcism; but ...
Style: independent film
Plot: priest in love, zombie, monster, undead, day of the dead, creature feature, possessed human, possession, demon, demonic possession, catholic priest, nightmare, mad doctor, basketball, children, female nudity, nun, priest, archaeologist, dream, single mother, bare breasts, meditation, festival, tour guide ...
Place: mexico
Keyword: new age

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Most similar movies to The Laughing Dead

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychotronic, slasher and suspense films with plots about gore, demon, zombie, female nudity, blood, monster and murder mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like The Laughing Dead: Back from Hell (1993), Demon Resurrection (2008), The Power (1984), The Return of the Exorcist (1975), Dorm of the Dead (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Back from Hell (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An aspiring movie star sells his soul. Things go wrong, as they tend to. He goes home, which leads to all manner of unpleasantry for himself and his childhood friend, who has become a priest.
Style: independent film, satanic, splatter, psychotronic
Plot: supernatural horror, zombie, deal with the devil, captivity, escape, death, murder, corpse, confession, violence, chainsaw, blood ...
Place: michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Demon Resurrection (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult in this low-budget shocker that pays homage to 70s horror and exploitation classics.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: monster, zombie, supernatural, demon, satanic cult, supernatural power, blood, violence, cthulhu, witchcraft, nudity, night of the living dead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 689
The Power (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man comes into possession of an ancient Aztec doll. However, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, which takes over his body.
Style: independent film, psychotronic, surprise ending, twist ending, eighties
Plot: monster, occult, supernatural, possession, doll, puppet, demonic possession, professor, disfigured face, psychokinesis, possessed woman, unrequited love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Return of the Exorcist (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A priest becomes involved in demonology and exorcisms.
Style: demonic, suspense, sexploitation film
Plot: exorcism, exorcist, possession, demonic possession, demon, nun, eye, bare breasts, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbianism, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Dorm of the Dead (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: At Arkham University, campus bitches Clare and Julie have a score to settle with goth chicks Sarah and Allison. And when Amy accidentally unleashes a campus zombie epidemic, Clare picks Sarah as the perfect candidate to join the walking dead! But ...
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: zombie, epidemic, apocalypse, lesbian sex, undead, female nudity, lesbianism, college, blood, lesbian, blonde, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 129
The Dwelling (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Andy moves into The Dwelling, his life looks perfect. He is starting college and making friends with his sexy neighbor, Pam. Curiosity about the bizarre noises from the "empty" apartment lures Andy and Pam into a frenzy of Satanic ...
Style: independent film
Plot: devil worship, possession, demon, new in town, female nudity, demonic possession, satanic cult, human sacrifice, apartment complex
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Unnamable (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. Go ahead ...
Style: lovecraft, slasher, independent film, mystic, retro ...
Plot: cosmic horror, monster, haunted house, college, supernatural, cthulhu, murder, underground, creature, birth, bad kids, witch ...
Time: 80s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.
Style: demonic, mockbuster, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: possession, exorcism, demon, curse, demonic possession, murder, violence, older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, priest, good versus evil, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Skull Heads (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When an eccentric clan living in virtual isolation in an Italian castle finds their family togetherness threatened by the arrival of three mysterious strangers, they summon up some supernatural protectors to fend off the barbarian invasions.
Style: suspense, erotic, psychotronic
Plot: monster, sex scene, making love, puppet, tiny, bare breasts, torture, teenage girl, killer doll, burglar, castle, undead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Bone Sickness (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young woman finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences.
Style: disturbing, terrifying, controversial, bloody, medical horror ...
Plot: zombie, walking dead, exploitation, violent, apocalypse, body horror, gory, medical, epidemic, undead, extreme, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Goblin (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: slasher, retro, slasher horror, independent film
Plot: zombie, living dead, creature, monster, goblin, demon, heavy metal, disembowelment, blood, victim, evil, sexual abuse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.9
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FleshEater (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, ...
Style: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: zombie, gory, survival, rescue, danger, deadly creature, on the run, woods, eaten alive, sadism, undead, murder ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?
Style: demonic, scary, religious horror, splatter, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: possession, demon, exorcism, priest, good versus evil, supernatural, psychic, surrealism, demonic possession, pact with the devil, exorcist, devil ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, washington d.c., usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Curse of the Blue Lights (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
Style: independent film
Plot: zombie, monster, demon, scarecrow, cemetery, sword and sorcery, teenager
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56%
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Scalps (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Silly group of college science students go an dig around in an indian burial ground for artifacts. Unfortunately, one of them becomes possessed by the evil spirit of Black Claw so he must therefore slaughter all of his friends.
Style: slasher, cult classic, splatter, independent film, psychotronic ...
Plot: scalping, native american, nudity, female nudity, rape, cemetery, ghost, native, exploitation, redsploitation, teenager, desecration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Violent New Breed (1997)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A detective investigating a rash of mysterious drug-related deaths finds a society of Satanists bent on bringing about the End Times.
Style: independent film, splatter
Plot: child murder, mutilation, church, suicide attempt, tentacle, demon, pregnancy, child sacrifice, violence, murder, blood, gore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
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The Vineyard (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dr. Elson Po is one of the world's most famous wine grower. He has a magic potion which has kept him handsome and alive during the centuries. However, the magic which rejuvenates him seem to be less and less effective. As a side project he make ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: zombie, rejuvenation, voyeur, wine, experiment, supernatural being, woman with a gun, exploitation, monster, occult, voyeurism, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Satan's Mistress (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in her relationship with a ghostly, speechless presence who, obviously, doesn't quite say who he is.
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, surprise ending, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: demon rape, nudity, erotica, ghost, occult, paranormal, exploitation, bare breasts, female nudity, unfaithful wife, loneliness, supernatural power ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.3
 703
The Possessed (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Style: psychotronic, spooky
Plot: haunting, zombie, evil child, demonic possession, director, teacher, reincarnation, occult, supernatural power, possession, exorcism, demon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, weird
Plot: cannibal, attempted rape, sadist, sacrifice, ritual, nightmare, curse, flesh eating, boy strangling, exploitation, zombie, suburban life ...
Time: prehistoric times
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Evil Clutch (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of a hideous monster who takes the form of a beautiful, seductive woman who in a torrent of special effects, beauty and monster transform into a climax of pure evil. For years this monster woman has cursed a small village, and to this day ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, suspense
Plot: zombie, body horror, supernatural horror, monster, supernatural power, woods, female killer, chainsaw, demon, decapitation, american abroad, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.4
 231K
The Evil Dead (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
Style: splatter, psychotronic, grindhouse, bloody, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, gory, evil dead, monster, demonic possession, supernatural horror, extreme violence, demon, evil, supernatural, violence, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, michigan, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of six friends are out in the rural south on a deer hunt (even though one of the six is blind), when they start hearing strange noises coming from the woods. An investigation of the sounds leads them to an old Confederate graveyard, which ...
Style: independent film
Plot: zombie, cemetery, civil war, american civil war, cannibal, living dead, freak, group, revenge, soldier, diary, cannibalism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
American Exorcism (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Damon Richter thought he left the world of possessions, exorcisms, and evil behind until an old friend arrives with frightening information about his estranged daughter knowing that only his otherworldly skills can save her.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exorcism, husband wife relationship, demonic possession, exorcist, demon, villain, supernatural, paranormal, macabre, curses spells and rituals, monster, good versus evil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travelers… Three ...
Style: gothic, scary, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: demon, animate object, surrealism, supernatural, woods, female nudity, sadism, ritual, resurrection, exploitation, supernatural ability, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Forever Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A crazed rabbit goes zombie on a small community turning it's inhabitants into zombies. Six people struggle with their own inner demons some of which are more frightening than the zombies they are trying to survive.
Style: suspense
Plot: zombie, rabbit, flesh eating zombie, gore
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jon Porter returns to his hometown after the sudden and bizarre death of his mother. He hopes to leave as soon as the funeral is over but it's too late. The sinister forces that caused his sister's brutal murder 30 years ago are back. Jon ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, tense, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, demon, stephen king, priest, possession, haunted by the past, murder, parents and children, homecoming, danger, hometown, satanism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Dead Next Door (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead ...
Style: apocalyptic, cult classic, bloody, independent film, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, gory, undead, supernatural, apocalypse, epidemic, tribe, living dead, flesh eater, post apocalyptic, disaster, guts ...
Time: 80s
Place: ohio, washington d.c., virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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