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The Sylvian Experiments (2010)
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The Sylvian Experiments (2010)
Original name: 恐怖
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 see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, medical horror, captivating, surreal, offbeat, serious
Plot: experiment gone awry, laboratory, danger, mad scientist, nightmare comes true, obsession, family relations, parents and children, disorder, violent content, uncover truth, supernatural, missing person, post apocalypse, medical, environmental, imaginary, woman in danger, medical experiment, graphic violence, brain surgery
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia

Most similar movies to The Sylvian Experiments

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about danger, supernatural, disorder, deadly, experiment gone awry, mad scientist and imaginary mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Sylvian Experiments: Ghost from the Machine (2010), Psychic Experiment (2010), The Prometheus Project (2010), Warriors of Terra (2006), Metamorphosis (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ghost from the Machine (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Wildly grief-stricken over the accidental death of his parents, young techno-geek Cody (Sasha Andreev) cobbles together an electrical device that he hopes will bring the spirits of mom and dad back from beyond the grave. But the machine's power ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, scary, captivating, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Warriors of Terra (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. They...
Style: serious, scary, suspense, captivating
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Metamorphosis (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences.
Style: medical horror, cult horror, independent film, serious, scary ...
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Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Scintilla (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital ...
Style: tense, bleak, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Mutants (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The greedy Braylon owns the Just Rite Sugar Company and has hired the unethical scientist Sergei to conduct an experiment to make an addictive sugar stronger than heroin or nicotine to increase his sales. Sergei uses invisible people as test ...
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, scary ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, danger, experiment gone awry, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
54%
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Rubber's Lover (1996)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded ...
Style: controversial, clever, black and white, cyber, disturbing ...
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Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Immortalizer (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A crazed scientist sends out his mutant creations to kidnap young, beautiful men and women to bring back to his lab so he can transplant their brains into the bodies of old, wealthy people.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, body swap, mutant, kidnapping, disorder, dark humor, mad scientist, zombie, imaginary, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.5
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Fear Chamber (1968)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: surreal, classic horror, grindhouse, gothic horror, offbeat ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Monster a-Go Go (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.8
 1K
Dead Shadows (2012)
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Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Bloodwork (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 87 min.
Story: From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Genre: Horror
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Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, tense ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, supernatural, monster, mental institution, psychopath, experiment gone awry, danger, zombie, deadly creature, violence, murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1930s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Darker Than Night (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: scary, serious, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, gothic, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.1
 643
Tormented (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: tense, disturbing, psychological, scary, mind bending ...
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Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, scary, serious ...
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Time: year 1967, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Style: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, dracula, vampire, frankenstein, mad scientist, missing person, laboratory, frankenstein's monster, experiment gone awry, investigation, rivalry, hidden identity ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, las vegas, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, grindhouse ...
Plot: mad scientist, murder, investigation, mad doctor, danger, missing person, isolation, laboratory, zombie, body horror, macabre, evil ...
Time: 60s
Place: asia, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.0
 3K
Parasite (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future, year 1982, year 1992, 90s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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