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The Apostle (2012)
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The Apostle (2012)
Original name: O Apóstolo
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A prisoner recently escaped from prison tries to recover the loot he hid a few years earlier in a remote and secluded village, but what there is is a sentence worse than jail. Claims elderly, strange disappearances, spirits, a peculiar priest and to the very archpriest of Santiago star in a horror story, humor and fantasy. First production of stop-motion with clay made ​​in Spain. It features the voices of Luis Tosar, Geraldine Chaplin, Manuel Manquiña, Jorge Sanz and Paul Naschy among others.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, adult animation, anime, tense, claymation, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: stop motion, village, curses spells and rituals, danger, social relations, escapades, imaginary, obsessive quest, surrealism, halloween, legend, folklore, village life, society, religions or cults, ghost, virus, thief, treasure, epidemic, cat, forest, escape, religion, plague ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, europe
Keyword: mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, suspense, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about danger, escapades, supernatural, violence, blood, gore and monster mostly in Animation, Horror and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Apostle: Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012), Fear(s) of the Dark (2007), Thriller Restaurant (2010), Mummy, I'm A Zombie (2014), The Church (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi's uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a ...
Style: anime, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, dark fantasy ...
Plot: fish, friendship, manhunt, escapades, strong violent content, brutality, isolation, animal life, dangerous animal, race against time, characters killed one by one, showdown ...
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Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, anthology, adult animation, suspenseful ...
Plot: nightmare, ghost, monster, cowardice, danger, dangerous animal, nightmare comes true, bestiality, couples, dangerous attraction, body horror, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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100%
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The animated conclusion to the live action Todd and The Book Of Pure Evil Show. Todd tries to mend his friendship with Curtis after killing his girlfriend. The book has returned along with Hannah and there is talk of a new Pure Evil one.
Style: suspense, captivating, humorous, anime
Plot: satanic cult, dark humor, adolescent girl, prophecy, good versus evil, heavy metal, high school, teenage boy, male protagonist, wilhelm scream, janitor, male masturbation ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Thriller Restaurant (2010)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the spooky western styled mansion turned restaurant "Thriller Restaurant," Kuroka and Ryu disappear. After their disappearance others start to disappear at the restaurant. Rumors soon start that the devil himself is responsible for the ...
Style: bleak, humorous, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: horror for children
Plot: missing person, restaurant, ghost, teenage girl, teenager, paranormal investigator, ghost story, escapades, rescue, curses spells and rituals, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Mummy, I'm A Zombie (2014)
Genre: Animation
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In the sequel to "Daddy, I'm a Zombie", all of our favorite characters are back! The fate of the planet is once again in Dixie's hands as she must fight to end the battle that has erupted between the living and the walking dead ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, computer animated, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: zombie, save the day, young heroes, heroes, good versus evil, disorder, escapades, imaginary, youth, danger, undead, showdown ...
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49%
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (2007)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story: In the bleak, disturbing and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals come to life, there's no escape for these hapless souls, whether they come across the Danwich outskirts or ...
Style: lovecraft, suspense, gothic horror, captivating, mystical ...
Plot: old man, supernatural horror, mysticism, cosmic horror, university professor, stop motion, puppet animation, old house, flame
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47%
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The Church (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In medieval Europe, crusading knights massacre a village full of suspected devil worshipers and build a large Gothic church above the cursed remains. It is now present day, and this elaborate cathedral still stands. But when its sealed crypt is ...
Style: atmospheric, satanic, surreal, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot: church, supernatural, zombie, devil, demon, ghost, witch, occult, witchcraft, monster, macabre, buried alive ...
Time: medieval times, 13th century, middle ages
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Birdboy and his animal friends plan their escape from an ecologically devastated island in this surreal, animated fantasy.
Style: suspense, gloomy, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, pursuit, stranded, hallucination, escape, death, violence, monster, island, friends, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Feast of Amrita (2023)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Story: The story will center on a high school girl named Tamahi, who encounters strange creatures while navigating a gigantic apartment building.
Style: dark fantasy, anime, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: supernatural being, schoolgirl, survival, teenage girl, teenage boy, supernatural horror, teenage protagonist, supernatural, supernatural power, suicide, teenager, gore
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story: In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new ...
Style: anime, intense, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, gory, deadly creature, murder, secret movement, good versus evil, heroic mission, battles, escapades, imaginary, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Wolf House (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, adult animation, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: stop motion, military dictatorship, wolf, fleeing, colony, political persecution, running for your life, political prisoner, runaway, political unrest, toys, xmas ...
Place: chile, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Seoul Station (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Suk-gyu is desperately looking for his runaway daughter. He spares neither money nor effort and after a while his search leads to results. One of his contacts claims to have found the girl. But joy is replaced by shock when he finds out that she ...
Style: anime, adult animation, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak, murder, death threat, subway, violence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, father daughter relationship, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: seoul, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot: zombie, living dead, night of the living dead, survival, transformation, chaos and mayhem, danger, fear, rescue, group of strangers, violence, race against time ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Lady Death (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The movie begins in 15th century Sweden, where Hope, the beautiful daughter of Matthias, a skilled mercenary who is in actuality a demon, is accused of being the devil's consort. Sentenced by the town priest to be burned at the stake, Matthias, ...
Style: atmospheric, anime, adult animation, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, supernatural, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, rivalry, save the world, survival, good versus evil, betrayal, danger, deal with the devil, chaos ...
Time: 15th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.
Style: adult animation, anime, suspense, surprise ending, psychotronic ...
Plot: mutation, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, mutant, blonde, radiation, house, car theft, dead body, rural setting, bare butt ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Dead Space: Aftermath (2011)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The End was only the Beginning.The year is 2509 and not only has Earth lost contact with the Ishimura and Isaac Clarke, but now also the USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue them. Four crew members of the O'Bannon have ...
Style: anime, serious, suspenseful, space horror, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, space, trapped in space, mission gone awry, survival, deadly creature, supernatural, space travel, space and aliens, danger, survival horror, imaginary ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
One Night in City (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Jan Balej's animated film Night In A City / Jedné Noci V Jednom Meste (2007) from the Czech Republic. Very little dialogue throughout, but instead a rich world of sounds and music which more than match the detailed animation and curious ...
Style: adult animation, enigmatic, suspenseful, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: absurdism, absurd humor, surrealism, eccentricity, loneliness, alone, loner, city life, satire, stop motion, arthouse horror, mature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Daddy, I'm a Zombie (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada, Australia, India
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The misadventures of a teenager girl in her new life as zombie.
Style: scary, humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: mummy, zombie, undead, supernatural, imaginary, teenage life, woods, escapades, danger, heroes, bullying, children ...
Time: 2010s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Pied Piper (1986)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style: fairy tale, expressionism, surreal, experimental, anime ...
Plot: stop motion, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, rat, arthouse horror, children, greed, money, part animation, puppet animation, no dialogue
Time: year 1986, medieval times
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Dark Stranger (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.
Style: suspense, psychological, psychotronic, tense, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, female artist, ghost, supernatural power, revenge, obsessive quest, death, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, killings, fear, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Lunacy (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, blasphemy, doctors and patients, danger, society, social misfits, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, gory, sexual abuse ...
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Possessed (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Trini is the most famous flamingo dancer in the world and she has an envious life. Everyone loves her dancing, but when a seemingly innocuous domestic accident takes her husband's life, a deep depression falls over Trini forcing her to quit the ...
Style: adult animation, suspense, captivating, horror comedy, claymation ...
Audience: kids
Plot: family problems, loss of husband, mother son relationship, dancing, dancer, obsession, family relations, possessed human, supernatural, dancehall girl, evil spirit, stop motion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's not 1985 anymore...it's 1986, and Chuck Steel is 'the best God damn cop on the force' according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt. But even this maverick, renegade, loose cannon, lone wolf, cop on the edge, who ...
Style: funny, adult animation, anime, captivating, dread ...
Plot: private detective, fear, police investigation, vampire, stop motion, police officer, crime investigation, police, vanished man, mysterious disappearance, disaster, crime scene ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Masameer: The Movie (2020)
Genre: Animation
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Danah, a Saudi girl with a passion for artificial intelligence embark on a journey to create good in the world using robotics. Meanwhile, three friends Saad, Saltooh and Kalb hit rock bottom and go on a journey of their own to prove themselves to ...
Style: adult animation, captivating, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, superhero, teenager, profanity, fight, violence, adult humor, friendship, good versus evil, danger, teenage girl, youth ...
Place: saudi arabia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Dead Fury (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Animated parody of such horror classics as "Evil Dead" and "The Hills Have Eyes".
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense
Plot: good versus evil, supernatural, escapades, danger, gory, mentally unstable, heroes, curses spells and rituals, blood, dead, zombie, rivalry ...
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41%
Dead Space: Downfall (2008)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: On a deep space mining mission to a remote planet, an ancient religious relic - thought to be proof of the existence of God - is unearthed and brought aboard. When the unholy artifact unleashes a long-dormant alien race, its glimpse of Heaven ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, anime ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, alien monster, deadly creature, imaginary, danger, violence, infection, survival horror, spacecraft, body horror, self sacrifice, zombie ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
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Story: Mary Shelley's Frankenhole is a stop-motion animated TV series by Dino Stamatopoulos, creator of Moral Orel.
Style: adult animation, humorous, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: space and aliens, stop motion, mad scientist, time travel, immortality, monster, danger, space travel, imaginary, parallel world, disorder, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Island of Giant Insects (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After an airplane crash during a school trip, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates were stranded on a seemingly deserted island. Mutsumi found the other survivors, and used her wilderness knowledge to help them. She expects that they will be rescued in ...
Style: anime, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: survivor, insect, island, teenager, female nudity, lesbian, life & death, stranded, characters in danger, danger, lgbt, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.
Style: surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: stop motion, imaginary kingdom, obsession, escapades, fall in love, society, rescue, rich and poor, doll, surrealism, puppet, human relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Calamity of a Zombie Girl (2018)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When a zombie named Euphrosyne awakens after a century-long slumber, she finds herself coming face-to-face with a group of five university students – a stand-off that leads to a bloody battle for all concerned, revolving around a secret stone ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, lost treasure, female psychopath, violence, supernatural power, strength, human monster, superhuman powers, elderly man, psychopath, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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40%
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