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Necessary Evil (2008)
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Necessary Evil (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A scientist is testing a demonic drug on people in his secret lab. A cop and a female reporter try to stop him.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, demonic
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, mental institution, conspiracy, rivalry, good versus evil, mentally unstable, dishonesty, life is a bitch, laboratory, secret, profanity, violent content, graphic violence, crimes
Time: contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, gory, rivalry, escapades and imaginary mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Necessary Evil: Gemini Division (2008), War Wolves (2009), Angels Fallen (2020), Psychic Experiment (2010), They Crawl (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gemini Division (2008)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Gemini Division is an American science fiction series of five-to-seven minute long episodes created by Electric Farm Entertainment which went into production in March 2008. Based on an original story by Brent Friedman the online series was developed ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, serious, cyber, futuristic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, uncover truth, investigation, corporate crime, artificial intelligence, working undercover, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rivalry, undercover, imaginary, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 2.8
 1K
War Wolves (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack Ford leads a special forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel, a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf. Little does Jack know that three of the female soldiers serving in his unit ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: werewolf, save the world, deadly creature, soldier, good versus evil, chases and races, danger, supernatural, human becomes animal, swat, virus, wolf ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Angels Fallen (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After the tragic loss of his wife battling the forces of darkness, Gabriel is persuaded to rejoin his former team of demon hunters traveling from relatively obscurity in America to the deep unknown regions of Europe. He is joined by his estranged ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, tense ...
Plot: evil, paranormal phenomena, survival, serial killer, blood, torture, monster, paranormal, good versus evil, supernatural power, demon hunter, angel ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Psychic Experiment (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, chaos, small town, supernatural, small community, dark secret, under the surface, survival, violent content, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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They Crawl (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Scream of the Banshee (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Plot: imaginary, danger, youth, sex scene, gory, race against time, professor, curses spells and rituals, mother daughter relationship, creature feature, ancient mystery, sexual content ...
Time: 12th century, 21st century
Place: ireland, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 3.9
 686
Subterano (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopian future, survival, contests and competitions, danger, on the run, life is a bitch, imaginary, escapades, chases and races, escape, leadership, rebelliousness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 8.9
 72
Shadow Bound (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Welcome to Veritas. It is an old place. A place with a long memory. A city of shadows and hidden terrors long forgotten by the modern world of 1931. But some things in the shadows are best left forgotten... SHADOW BOUND follows famed pulp horror ...
Style: gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, silent ...
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, supernatural, danger, writer's life, rivalry, good versus evil, dishonesty, losing-it hero, small town, monster, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 5.4
 2K
Scanner Cop (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to ...
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, investigation, vengeance, gory, rivalry, danger, fighting crime, supernatural ability, police station, adoption, cop ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Paranormal Incident (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, mental institution, supernatural, survival, haunted house, danger, isolation, confined, haunted by the past, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, creature feature, psychopath, danger, mind game, serial killer, plague, race against time, investigation ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Night of the Scarecrow (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, slasher ...
Plot: scarecrow, warlock, deal with the devil, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, evil doll, killer scarecrow, danger, rivalry, mentally unstable, love affair, murder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Legends from the Sky (2015)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Native American Veteran, burdened by survivor's guilt after a disastrous military tour, is forced to search for his missing grandfather after his ancestral land is mysteriously taken over by an unknown federal organization.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, independent film
Plot: heroes, uncover truth, save the day, government agency, haunted by the past, dishonesty, alien encounter, law enforcement, conspiracy, space and aliens, ufo, military ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 3.0
 1K
Bone Eater (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, chaos, resort, danger, creature, good versus evil, death, creature feature, monster, cowboy, shark ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: split personality, mad scientist, transformation, mental illness, murder, violence spree, jekyll and hyde, paranoid schizophrenia, mad doctor, mythical creature, macabre, mutant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 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 ⇓
61%
 2.6
 344
30 Days to Die (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A group of girls trapped in an institution suffer the wrath of a serial killer on the loose. This campy thriller pays homage to Friday the 13th.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, mentally unstable, mental institution, struggle for survival, danger, murder, violence, strong violent content, survival, violence spree, woman in danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 3.3
 605
Bane (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Held captive in an underground prison by a sadistic sicko who fancies himself a surgeon, 4 women fight for their lives, knowing the exact time they're scheduled to die thanks to a crudely carved set of numbers on each of their bodies. None of ...
Style: suspense, bleak, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: alien, experiment, danger, isolation, confined, survival, violence, murder, serial killer, torture, trapped, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Movie in collections
 3.9
 2K
Mind Ripper (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation. With the door sealed from within, there is no way out.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot: supernatural, desert, mutant, deadly creature, gory, superhuman powers, danger, confined, experiment gone awry, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, monster ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.9
 471
Inside (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: prison, supernatural, confined, danger, haunted by the past, deadly creature, violence, exorcism, demon, jail cell, prisoner, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Sylvian Experiments (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, medical horror, tense ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, laboratory, nightmare comes true, mad scientist, danger, disorder, family relations, parents and children, obsession, violent content, uncover truth, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 883
Septic Man (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront the murdering madman known as Lord Auch.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: losing-it hero, survival, supernatural, contamination, investigation, danger, murder, evacuation, small town, body horror, violent, canuxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 2.5
 528
Infection (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, danger, social relations, dishonesty, love triangle, creature, infection, government coverup, survival, uncover truth, virus, pandemic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Dead Undead (2010)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Good Vampires battle Zombie Vampires while trying to hide their own identity and prevent the infection from spreading.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: vampire, zombie, save the day, escapades, race against time, supernatural, good versus evil, imaginary, master warrior, danger, heroes, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Style: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot: island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, mind game, investigation, danger, experiment gone awry, murder, monster, body horror ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: cuba, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 2.2
 744
Zombex (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, chaos, supernatural, profanity, danger, escapades, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, fear, graphic violence, undead, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.4
 498
The Portal (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Investigators pursuing a bizarre hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange black painting that they discover is a portal to another dimension.
Style: tense, scary, serious, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, parallel world, danger, investigation, uncover truth, supernatural, portal, murder, violence, ghost child, gory, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Mangler 2 (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A teenager girl mistakenly downloads the Mangler 2.0 computer virus into her highschool's new state of the art computer system and all hell breaks loose.
Style: bleak, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, computer, youth, teenage life, computers and web, technology gone awry, technophobia, science runs amok, human versus computer, college, stephen king, danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Torture Chamber (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 13-year-old Jimmy Morgan is possessed by an evil too powerful to be exorcised by any religion. After escaping from a mental institution, Jimmy is back with a vengeance - and an army of children who follow his every murderous desire.
Style: suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: evil, supernatural, reincarnation, danger, mentally unstable, family in danger, religions or cults, clergy, ghost, possession, hell, evil child ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Waylon and Buddy decide to join the army as it appears to be their best option. But when they realize...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soldier, military life, mad scientist, disorder, experiment gone awry, gory, buddies, military, army, special agent, looking for sex, laboratory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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