Movies like An American Werewolf in London
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
112K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Style:
funny, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, humorous, scary, gothic, slasher, dark, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, werewolf, supernatural, beast, nightmare, transformation, ghost, violence, full moon, monster as victim, suspense, wolf, nurse, afterlife, college student, cult, violent, murder, sex scene, hospital, dark humor, race against time, friendship, curse, american ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, yorkshire, europe, scotland yard, united kingdom, scottish highlands ...
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Most similar movies to An American Werewolf in London
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, splatter, cult film and weird films with plots about gory, brutality, mentor, violence, dialogue, gore and monster mostly in Horror, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like An American Werewolf in London: Evil Dead II (1987), Cemetery Man (1994), Re-Animator (1985), Trick 'r Treat (2007), The Frighteners (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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169K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed ...
Style:
scary, splatter, slasher, bloody, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, demon, monster, cult, dark humor, zombie, curses spells and rituals, time travel, macabre, halloween, apocalypse, survival ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1987, 14th century
Place:
michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, disturbing, campy, sexy ...
Plot:
zombie, insanity, erotica, death, cemetery, undead, macabre, cult, apocalypse, living dead, decapitation, eroticism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style:
splatter, scary, slasher, bloody, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, mad scientist, hospital, experiment, insanity, overdose, reanimated corpse, female nudity, scientist, laboratory, mad doctor, morgue ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
zurich switzerland, massachusetts, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives ...
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, werewolf, monster, serial killer, masked killer, suspense, psychopath, halloween party, ghost, supernatural, prank, scarecrow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more ...
Style:
scary, humorous, dark, suspenseful, light ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, serial killer, dark humor, funeral, life & death, supernatural ability, poltergeist, fbi, seeing dead people, mentor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Evil Dead similar movies
20K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Style:
surreal, scary, psychological, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, secret society, paranoia, monster, cult, transformation, conspiracy, cheerleader, cannibalism, psychiatrist, dark humor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
109K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician in this remake of the 1985 comedy-horror classic.
Style:
scary, gothic, entertaining, bloody, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, teenager, supernatural, vampirism, vampire hunter, female vampire, celebrity, monster, stalker, transformation, suspicion, sunrise ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new jersey, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Style:
sexy, scary, slasher, satirical, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, high school, supernatural, succubus, vampire, seductress, bad girl, satanic ritual, cheerleading, curses spells and rituals, small town, dark humor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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142K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before ...
Style:
scary, entertaining, suspenseful, campy, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, desert, creature feature, survival, deadly creature, small town, mutant, death, rescue, stranded, human versus monster, creature ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
99K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Style:
splatter, bloody, humorous, surreal, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, monster, supernatural, macabre, cult, living dead, cannibalism, zombie attack, apocalypse, brutality, insanity, transformation ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 90s, year 1957
Place:
new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Jeepers Creepers
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, USA, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
Style:
scary, gothic, suspenseful, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, afterlife, transformation, curse, monster, rescue, dark humor, race against time, dangerous animal, lust ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
paris france, london, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
148K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style:
scary, entertaining, stylized, gothic horror, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, small town, supernatural, motorcycle, transformation, fear, gang, goth, teenage boy, amusement park, single mother, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds ...
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, werewolf, halloween, obsession, goth, teenager, high school, transformation, puberty, goth girl, monster, sisters ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
13K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, monster, transformation, wax museum, haunted house, occult, werewolf, portal, characters killed one by one, female vampire, museum, deadly creature ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, slasher, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, monster, transformation, psychiatrist, murder, shapeshifting, creature feature, supernatural, lycanthropy, forest, lycanthrope ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Style:
scary, disturbing, atmospheric, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
zombie, uncle nephew relationship, twists and turns, revenge, justice, dangerous animal, family relations, parents and children, courtroom drama, love and romance, disorder, mother son relationship ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.
Style:
dark fantasy, humorous, splatter, funny, campy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, time travel, monster, siege, cult, evil dead, beast, demon, supernatural, sword fight, skeleton, good versus evil ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century, 20th century, year 1992, 90s ...
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, psychotronic ...
Plot:
siamese twins, monster, murder, evil twin, body horror, cult, revenge, violence, macabre, twins, brother brother relationship, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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50K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bloody, splatter, campy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, zombie, cult, death, murder, halloween, torture, dark humor, transformation, brutality, multiple storylines, voodoo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future, 19th century, 1830s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
40K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Members (Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny) of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must hike to their destination. However, a psychotic killer lurks in ...
Style:
scary, witty, slasher, splatter, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dark humor, workplace, suspense, isolation, survival, trap, rivalry, female nudity, fish out of water, weekend, violent, macabre ...
Place:
hungary, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Movies like The Cabin in the Woods
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his 350lbs, mentally retarded son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, vengeance, mentally challenged, survival, suspense, violent, slaughterhouse, dark humor, teenager, buddies, serial killer, pig ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Style:
scary, gothic, suspenseful, sexy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, halloween, demon, teenager, cult, supernatural, ghost, demonic possession, killed during sex, brutality, witch, halloween party ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, psychotronic ...
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, camp, murder, curse, doctor, disfigurement, monster, cult, obsession, tragic hero, master villain ...
Time:
1920s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
scotland yard, london, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, satanic, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, vengeance, high school, misfit, occult, suspense, dark humor, obsession, revenge, social misfits, teenage life, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Having eluded the authorities after a series of grisly murders, the pair find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth, an eccentric philanthropist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals". But even amongst "friends" ...
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, mutant, zombie, twins, macabre, supernatural, psychopath, superhuman powers, journalism, good versus evil, social misfits, freak ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Films like Tremors
131K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, ...
Style:
scary, gothic, slasher, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, demon, torture, body horror, monster, supernatural, surrealism, violence, murder, vengeance, suspense, occult ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
177K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, slasher, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, zombie, demon, forest, demonic possession, monster, brutality, violence, isolation, transformation, extreme violence, fear ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Style:
scary, campy, humorous, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
werewolf, monster, supernatural, babies and infants, filmmaking, female werewolf, nude, first contact, runaway, violence, solitude, fantasy world ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have ...
Style:
scary, sexy, humorous, not serious, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
piranha, animal attack, killer animal, monster, boat, dangerous animal, violence, rescue, killer fish, suspense, spring break, death ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style:
scary, splatter, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, monster, undead, punk, cannibalism, female nudity, crematorium, supernatural, paramedic, zombie attack, transformation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
usa, san diego california, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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