Movies like The Fly
The Fly is most extreme on VISCERA — explicit viscera at 092. Everything below is a movie that lands near it on the same six axes, which is a different question from "what else is tagged horror". Ranked by distance, closest first.
That is The Fly’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
The Thing
John Carpenter · 1982 · Film
Shares explicit viscera.
89% shared signal
Alien
Ridley Scott · 1979 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
79% shared signal
The Exorcist
William Friedkin · 1973 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
79% shared signal
Candyman
Bernard Rose · 1992 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
78% shared signal
The Omen
Richard Donner · 1976 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
75% shared signal
Hellraiser
Clive Barker · 1987 · Film
Shares explicit viscera.
75% shared signal
The Descent
Neil Marshall · 2005 · Film
72% shared signal
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976 · Film
71% shared signal
Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero · 1978 · Film
71% shared signal
Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero · 1968 · Film
70% shared signal
Videodrome
David Cronenberg · 1983 · Film
68% shared signal
Audition
Takashi Miike · 1999 · Film
67% shared signal
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