Tags: movies similar to The Hunger (1983) - full list
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, detective, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 01:52 |
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Mark | imdb: 2.6 |
Genre | horror |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:28 |
Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ramblings of the patients, she is further unnerved by apparent supernatural occurrences on the night shift. To preserve her sanity Lisa must uncover the mysterious history of the institution and it's inmates. But the truth is far more terrifying than she could ever imagine.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – and they soon see the true nature of its horror.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia |
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman, battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | horror, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They think it's his body Satan will occupy. The youngest in the group, a teacher named Maya Larkin, goes to Peter to investigate further and to convince him to believe in the possibility of Evil incarnate. Other signs come to him as he and Maya them take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery, and an ultimate showdown
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:40 |
Ray Winstone heads a cast of acclaimed actors in four H. G. Wells stories
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden |
Duration | 01:34 |
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Mark | imdb: 3.3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, thriller, western, detective |
Country | South Africa, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:27 |
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | horror |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:35 |
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | United Kingdom |
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | horror, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:46 |
A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | United Kingdom |
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
Mark | imdb: 3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:21 |
A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, musical |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:56 |
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:27 |
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:49 |
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror |
Country | France, Belgium |
Countess Irina of Karlstein resides quietly in a hotel on the island of Madeira, where she sustains her immortality by feeding on the life essence of men and women. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals!
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, fantasy, drama |
Country | USA, Australia |
Duration | 01:41 |
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | horror, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:58 |
Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | horror, action, fantasy, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:40 |
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action |
Country | United Kingdom |
When an undersea volcano sends tremors throughout the Atlantic, aquatic creatures come out of hiding. Merchant seamen Joe Ryan and partner Sam Slade harness the most unusual of the lot, a massive beast that looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The enterprising sailors deliver their quarry to a British circus, but it turns out that the animal is a newborn. And, when his much larger mother arrives in London to rescue her son, the city feels her wrath.