20 best movies like The Darker Side of Terror (1979)

List of the best movies like The Darker Side of Terror (1979): The Divide, The Bad Batch, Invasion, Muse, After Midnight, Algorithm: BLISS, Thelma, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Thirst, Parasite Eve.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:11

In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don’t play with your food.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA

In the aftermath of a hurricane the Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water. People in the town start to act different, who can you trust?

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A painter's life is forever changed when a mythical and deadly spirit from Celtic lore – a Leannán Sí – becomes his muse and lover.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to the user.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryNorway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration02:16

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Japan, United Kingdom
Duration02:03

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 experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryAustralia

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryJapan

Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action
CountryUSA, China

After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUSA

Blake Redding is trapped in this dark room wanting to protect his love so the only thing he will do is escape like no failed student has done before.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:52

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 seem.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUSA

A man, Apollo, wakes up in the future to realize the human race has been wiped out because of an ancient virus.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryCanada, USA, Germany

Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama
CountryUSA

A surreal sci-fi romance wherein a beautiful young woman and strange metaphysical forces threaten the reality of a reclusive video arcade technician, resulting in bizarre biomechanical mutations and a shocking self-realization.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:36

A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountrySpain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration01:53

And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

After his wife is killed in a hit-and-run accident by a mysterious Hooded Man, Theoretical Physicist Dylan Brandt builds a Quantum Suicide Machine to jump through parallel universes to find another version of his wife. Based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where a man storms of the Gates of Hades to return his wife to the land of the living, Dylan transverses infinite worlds of the Multi-verse to find his wife. But with every jump, Dylan is thwarted by the efforts of the mysterious Hooded Man, until the rules of physics completely break down, threatening to destroy the universe and everything in it.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:29

    On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.




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