Added by Lex on 16 Sep 2011 08:06

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Lesser-known versions of well known movies.

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

6255

8.2

8.3

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Try American Psycho

Or The Butcher Boy

Lex's rating:

1232

6.2

6.6

Child's Play (1988)

Try Pinocchio's Revenge

Dolls

or Dolly Dearest

Lex's rating:

2135

7.3

7.6

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Try Fire in the Sky

or Cocoon

Lex's rating:

6550

7.2

7.8

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Try Mac and Me

or Short Circuit

or Cocoon

and of course don't forget these obvious knock-offs.

Badi

and Homodi

Lex's rating:

6840

6.7

7.7

Home Alone (1990)

Try, Problem Child

And Playing Dangerous

Lex's rating:

8089

7.2

8.2

Jurassic Park (1993)

Try Carnosaur

Carnosaur 2

Raptor Island

Lex's rating:

2013

7.3

Poltergeist (1982)

I recommend Insidious if you are a fan of Poltergeist.

You might also enjoy...
The Changeling (1980)

Lex's rating:

205

6.6

6.9

Radio Flyer (1992)

Try Once Upon a Blue Moon
(Canadian film from 1995, I find it lame but it has a similar story-line).

Or The Boy who could Fly

or Jack the Bear (my fave of the three listed).

Lex's rating:

2132

7.3

7.4

The Evil Dead

You should check out the Masters of Horror mini-movie Dreams in the Witch House It is about an hour long, so not a full-length movie, but it also has cheesy kills, features a necronomicon (that looks very similar to the one from Evil Dead, but this mini-movie is based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story, so that makes sense) and also has some stupid, gory horror.

Also try...
Dead Alive

Lex's rating:

4107

7.5

8.1

The Exorcist (1973)

Try The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Audrey Rose

Lex's rating:

6529

8.2

8.4

The Shining

Try 1408

or The Changeling(1980)

or Darkness

Lex's rating:

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My list of movie recommendations based on some popular movies. Of course, in most case, the recommendation is not nearly as good as what it is based on. Oh well. However, in some cases the recommendations are as good or even better. I base the recs on the general story-line and genre. If the story-line is similar (or similar enough that a fan of the original might be interested in theory), that's how the rec got on this list.