Movies like Brain Damage
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Brain Damage (1988)
15K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
Style:
bloody, splatter, surreal, cult classic, scary, homoerotic, cult horror, semi serious, slasher, dark comedy ...
Plot:
body horror, dark humor, addiction, hallucination, drug abuse, parasite, gory, creature, monster, exploitation, slime, murder, surrealism, misfit, love triangle, brain, brother brother relationship, gay, hardcore, creature feature, death, male nudity, drug addiction, blood, drug ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Brain Damage
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, scary, independent film and psychotronic films with plots about gore, violence, blood, body horror, deadly, gory and supernatural mostly in Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Brain Damage: Basket Case (1982), Frankenhooker (1990), Basket Case 3 (1992), Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986), Society (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
bloody, slasher, splatter, scary, horror comedy ...
Plot:
body horror, siamese twins, macabre, hospital, gory, evil twin, freak, monster, revenge, twins, public nudity, raped by monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel ...
Style:
horror comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, black comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
prostitute, hooker, frankenstein, killed during sex, female objectification, brain transplant, man hits a woman, exploitation, monster, female monster, pimp, cocaine ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their ...
Style:
cult classic, horror comedy, dark, slasher, classic horror ...
Plot:
body horror, creature, twins, babies and infants, violence, freak, birth, misfit, little creatures, baby born, creature feature, exploitation ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
Style:
horror comedy, cult classic, slasher, splatter, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, nuclear power plant, monster, bullying, nudity, mutant, absurd humor, violent, exploitation, body horror, school, gory ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
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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:
horror comedy, creepy, dark comedy, surreal, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, conspiracy, surrealism, secret society, dark humor, cannibalism, cheerleader, paranoia, transformation, satire, black magic, making love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, bloody, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, satire, vigilante, gory, absurd violence, freak, absurdism, monster, bullying, blood, corruption, extreme violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
Style:
horror comedy, suspenseful, not serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, creature, losing-it hero, dark humor, life turned upside down, danger, deadly creature, disorder, breaking point, revenge, split personality, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style:
cult classic, cult horror, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, violence, zombie, dark humor, police, supernatural, parasite, fraternity, macabre, monster, gory, survival ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
94K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style:
entertaining, scary, horror comedy, spooky, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, parasite, monster, dark humor, small town, zombie, zombie attack, body horror, transformation, creature feature, infection ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also seen lurking around the house. ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, dark, retro, funny ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, high school, murder, dead teenager, gory, nudity, death, chase, violence, killer, murderer ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 103 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, black comedy, cult classic, sexy, creepy ...
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, male nudity, insanity, erotica, prostitute, grave digger, graphic violence, living dead, death, violent, undead ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
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: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, grindhouse, retro, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, exploitation, survival, cemetery, teenager, spiritualist, paranormal, dead, living dead, cannibal, mental disorder, undead ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Finland, Canada
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
Style:
independent film, atmospheric, dark comedy, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, anxiety, paranoia, therapist, nightmare, fear, death of mother, domineering mother, childhood trauma, violence, guilt, shame ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, road movie, black comedy, cerebral ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, psychedelia, trippy, addiction, surrealism, american dream, casino, marijuana, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, cult classic, psychotronic, horror comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
twins, zombie, freak, macabre, supernatural, monster, psychopath, superhuman powers, journalism, body horror, social misfits, hospital ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
24%
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:
22%
Movie in collections
21K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, cult horror, slasher, absurd ...
Plot:
addiction, conspiracy, zombie, satire, small town, consumerism, ghost town, body horror, ice cream, boy, infiltration, supermarket ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
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:
black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor ...
Style:
horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, toxic, homelessness, misfit, drunkenness, rape, junkyard, death, store, supernatural, experiment gone awry, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style:
lovecraft, horror comedy, black comedy, independent film, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, zombie, laboratory, police detective, hospital, gay subtext, reanimation, gory, reanimated corpse, mind control, obsession, dog ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, peru, south america, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Style:
funny, horror comedy, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, dark humor, supernatural, apocalypse, toxic waste, infected, youth, gory, plague, night of the living dead, epidemic, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
20%
Movie in collections
14K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three tales are told, each one increasingly terrifying. The first tells the story of a woman being stalked by an axe-weilding maniac. The second is the story of a man who pays the ultimate price for a beautiful head of hair. The final tale shows ...
Style:
anthology, medical horror, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, violent sex, investigation, obsession, hair loss, baseball, murder, gory, danger, stalking, supernatural ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
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:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
Style:
independent film, mind bending, psychotronic, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, body horror, nymphomaniac, sexual fantasy, electrocution, cannibal, transvestite, psychiatrist, female masturbation, absurd humor, laboratory, supernatural being ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Humans... the other white meat... Unless you're black, then it's dark meat... Or if you are Asian, then it's yellow meat... Or if you are Native American, it's red meat...
Style:
parody, scary, grindhouse, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, body horror, chicken, castration, satire, vengeance, toxic, danger, deadly creature, protest, protest sign, violent ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Style:
horror comedy, cult horror, psychotronic, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
voyeur, television, absurd humor, brother sister relationship, creature feature, ufo, body horror, exploitation, alien invasion, satellite, punk, creature ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
19%
72K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.
Style:
scary, surreal, harsh, psychological, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
disfigurement, gory, body horror, macabre, abduction, captivity, dark humor, death, transformation, obsession, monster, walrus ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
15K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, toxic, police investigation, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, survival, danger, murder, exploitation, creature, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
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