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The Substance (2024)
402K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Style:
atmospheric, dark comedy, grim, psychological horror, absurd, biting, f word
Plot:
experimental drug, fountain of youth, body horror, celebrity, drug, disfigurement, rivalry, narcissism, moral dilemma, dark secret, female monster, jealousy, freak, greed, fight to the death, ends with death, body transformation, hollywood star, actress, woman in jeopardy, female nudity, fight, violence, death, addiction ...
Place:
california, los angeles
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Most similar movies to The Substance
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, independent film, suspenseful and scary films with plots about blood, murder, violence, danger, nude, female nudity and death mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like The Substance: Raw (2016), Videodrome (1983), Horror Planet (1981), Killer Tongue (1996), Sick of Myself (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
96K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced ...
Style:
bloody, dark, psychological, creepy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, cannibal, meat, school, sex scene, vegetarian, sister sister relationship, party, peer pressure, body horror, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2017, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, scary, psychotronic, retro ...
Plot:
pregnancy, impregnation, rape, alien, cave, murder, evil alien, woman in labor, characters killed one by one, space monster, pregnant from rape, trapped in space ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, scary, dark comedy ...
Plot:
desert, space and aliens, dark humor, nun, male to female cross dressing, female nudity, prison, deadly creature, mutant, sex with alien, monster, gay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona ...
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, thrilling, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
fame, skin disease, drug abuse, narcissism, skin, disfigurement, egocentric woman, disfigured face, egocentrism, egoism, female protagonist, social satire ...
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on aging, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an aging actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
monster, body horror, alien, genetic experiment, murder of a nude woman, mad scientist, metamorphosis, actress, female protagonist, female nudity, skinny dipping, exploitation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknown to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh after government officials conduct pest control experiments using ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, detective, gothic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
contamination, zombie, english countryside, owl, undead, exploitation, hippie, living dead, terror, female nudity, rural setting, infected ...
Time:
70s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1974
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
142K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her ...
Style:
suspense, scary, dark, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, giant monster, fear, dark humor, macabre, animal attack, daughter, giant creature, environment, beast, deadly creature, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, seoul, korea ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, tense, scary ...
Plot:
zombie, fear, island, child with gun, murder, teenager, violence, survival, danger, brutality, internet, magic ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Style:
grindhouse, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape, dystopia, torture, brutality, lesbian rape, sex, murder of a nude woman, sadism, violence, prisoner, most dangerous game, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 1982, 21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, monster, alien, creature, creature feature, post-apocalyptic future, laboratory, apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, bare chested male, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
Style:
medical horror, grindhouse, slasher, mystical, scary ...
Plot:
hospital, male nudity, male pubic hair, telekinesis, serial killer, supernatural, coma, exploitation, mental disorder, mind power, psychokinesis, supernatural power ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
oceania, australia, italy, europe, melbourne ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, medical horror, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
body horror, vampire, hospital, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cannibalism, virus, infection, bare breasts, infected, canuxploitation, disaster, zombie ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, montreal, canada
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Style:
psychological, futuristic, cerebral, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
distopia, decadence, money, violence, tower, dark humor, existentialism, violent, surrealism, male nudity, rape, orgy ...
Time:
future, 70s, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016 ...
Place:
london, england, ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, medical horror, costume drama ...
Plot:
frankenstein, experiment gone awry, death, mad scientist, monster, vengeance, supernatural, frankenstein's monster, obsession, hanged woman, experiment, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, georgian era, 1790s, 1900s ...
Place:
central europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland, swiss alps
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.
Style:
suspense, surreal, poliziottesco, freeze frame, detective ...
Plot:
gay interest, xmas, female rapist, neurology, promiscuous woman, homosexual, bare chested male, serial killer, experiment, motorcycle, sexual harassment, gay subtext ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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49K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to ...
Style:
touching, emotional, scary, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, father daughter relationship, apocalypse, pandemic, death, virus, zombie apocalypse, small town, transformation, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa, midwest, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, dark, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
therapist, cure, patient, capitalism, health, slut, capitalist, nubile girl, sauna, hospital, spa, lust ...
Time:
year 2016, future, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
swiss alps, switzerland, alps, america, germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger ...
Style:
parody, horror comedy, dark comedy, detective, freeze frame ...
Plot:
frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, cybernetics, exhumation, genius, macabre, obsession, female pubic hair, dead body, bare chested male, car crash, nudity ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mars, alien monster, ghost ship, murder, good versus evil, investigation, danger, survival, race against time, alien invasion, heroic mission, supernatural ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, latin america, usa, florida, south america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
forest, survival horror, woods, mushroom, virus, wilderness, alchemy, folk horror, murder, plague, insanity, scout ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, serious, scary, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, mutant, cocoon, female scientist, monster attack, experiment gone awry, genetic engineering, creature feature, monster, laboratory, creature, babe scientist ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
Style:
psychotronic, slasher, splatter, independent film
Plot:
fornication, exploitation, robot, teenager, monster, virus, body horror, computer, motorcycle, puppet, college, father daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, horror musical, slasher ...
Plot:
female nudity, nudity, folk horror, surrealism, erotica, renaissance, mental disorder, small town, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, spell, insanity ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
eastern europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style:
lovecraft, scary, sexy, demonic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
mad scientist, body horror, monster, transformation, alternate dimension, mutant, insanity, parallel world, decapitation, cthulhu, gory, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
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, lovecraft, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style:
mind bending, surreal, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightmare, doppelganger, dream, broken mirror, fear, murder of a nude woman, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, danger, sex, embassy ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style:
psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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