Movies like Asylum 1972
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Asylum (1972)
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Style:
psychological, anthology, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, occult, mad scientist, serial killer, supernatural, murder, objects come to life, mental illness, investigation, mind game, missing person, vengeance, danger, haunted by the past, dismemberment, tailor, reanimation, uxoricide, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital, multiple personality disorder, puppet, doll ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Keyword:
british horror, doctors, dreams
Most similar movies to Asylum
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and slasher films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, supernatural, serial killer, blood and macabre mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Asylum: The House That Dripped Blood (1971), Torture Garden (1967), Don't Look in the Basement (1973), Tales That Witness Madness (1973), Darkness (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Style:
anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
vampire, curse, haunted house, witchcraft, investigation, murder, female vampire, wax museum, country house, supernatural power, evil child, serial killer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
scotland yard, scotland, europe, england
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100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
Style:
anthology, slasher, scary, rough, serious ...
Plot:
murder, greed, uncle nephew relationship, jealousy, supernatural, good versus evil, woman in danger, danger, serial killer, zombie, supernatural ability, occult ...
Time:
future, 60s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, mental illness, hospital, mental institution, patient, danger, isolation, doctors and patients, obsession, mind game, losing-it hero, mad scientist ...
Time:
70s
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100%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad...cue four distinct ...
Style:
anthology, offbeat, dark fairy tale, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
time travel, tree, occult, omnibus, tiger, erotica, mysticism, 666, macabre, food, folklore, mental disorder ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, gothic, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, afterlife, psychopath, supernatural ability, vampire, solar eclipse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, haunted, mysterious character ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
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Plot:
revenge, serial killer, camp, murder, doctor, curse, disfigurement, monster, mad doctor, obsession, master villain, tragic hero ...
Time:
year 1971, 1920s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
scotland yard, london, united kingdom, england
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100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. ...
Style:
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Plot:
murder, mannequin, serial killer, psychopath, insanity, fear, group of friends, chase, blood, maniac, old dark house, doll ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates (Keith and Rupert Davies) were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for ...
Style:
slasher, scary, gothic horror, classic horror, creepy ...
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, mental illness, cannibal, cannibalism, psychopath, danger, crazy, killer, freak, terror, misfit ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, gory, serial killer, ghost, monster, violent, insanity, undead, blood, psychopath, house ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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26%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, ghost, intern, murder, investigation, supernatural, ghost child, danger, doctors and patients, psychopath, who done it ...
Time:
year 2004
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26%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 19th century, 20th century, year 1963, 1870s ...
Place:
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26%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which ...
Style:
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zombie, mental illness, mental institution, psychopath, psychic, repressed memory, zombie attack, psychiatrist, insanity, holy water, amnesia, nightmare ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style:
anthology, surprise ending, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vampire, painting, greed, buried alive, strangled to death, dream within a dream, artist, brother sister relationship, hanged man, supernatural power, husband wife relationship, female vampire ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india, haiti, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A gruesome homage to the cult Amicus anthology Asylum, Cradle of Fear unfolds four screamplays all linked by the unspeakable need of an incarcerated child killer to wreak vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. Helped by deranged angel ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, goth, murder, obsession, violence spree, mind game, mysterious character, gory, danger, master and servant, supernatural ability, fear ...
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, year 1969, 1860s, year 1865, victorian era
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new hampshire, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that ...
Style:
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Plot:
afterlife, ghost, castle, supernatural, witch, fear, good versus evil, murder, hanging, curse, torture chamber, auction ...
Time:
year 1972, 15th century, 70s
Place:
austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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24%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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24%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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24%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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