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Absurd (1981)

  • Horror
  • 94 min
  • NR age guide
  • ★ 5.5/10 from 111 ratings

A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.

Directed byJoe D'Amato

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  1. 01

    Nightmares

    Strong story similarity

    1983 · 99 min · Horror · Science Fiction

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    A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: monster and priest
    • shared serial killer movie style
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  2. 02

    The New York Ripper

    Strong story similarity

    1982 · 93 min · Crime · Horror · Mystery · Thriller

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    A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: murder and serial killer
    • shared serial killer movie style
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  3. 03

    Prince of Darkness

    Strong story similarity

    1987 · 102 min · Horror

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    A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  4. 04

    Deranged

    Strong story similarity

    1974 · 83 min · Crime · Horror · Thriller

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    A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: cannibal and murder
    • shared serial killer movie style
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  5. 05

    City of the Living Dead

    Strong story similarity

    1980 · 93 min · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

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    A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  6. 06

    The Initiation

    Strong story similarity

    1984 · 93 min · Horror · Mystery · Thriller

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    An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: murder and psycho killer
    • shared serial killer movie style
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  7. 07

    Dead & Buried

    Strong story similarity

    1981 · 94 min · Horror · Mystery

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    After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: murder and video nasty
    • substantial genre overlap
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  8. 08

    Martin

    Strong story similarity

    1978 · 95 min · Drama · Horror

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    A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  9. 09

    Eaten Alive!

    Strong story similarity

    1980 · 93 min · Adventure · Horror

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    A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: cannibal and sadism
    • substantial genre overlap
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  10. 10

    The Abomination

    Strong story similarity

    1988 · 89 min · Horror

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    A mother obsessed with mind-altering televangelism consequently vomits a pulsating growth that slithers down the throat of her son during the night. Upon spewing the parasite, the son is driven by an uncontrollable force to murder and feed corpses to the now-multiple-toothed monsters manifesting throughout the house.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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