Movies like Swamp Thing 1982

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Swamp Thing (1982)
 5.3
 16K
Swamp Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed. Arcane, desperate for the formula, attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane...
Style: semi serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous, epic, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: swamp, superhero, creature, monster, laboratory, rescue, good versus evil, danger, superhuman powers, transformation, chase, villain, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, rivalry, scientist, master villain, forest, mad scientist, multiverse, creature feature, violence, blood, body horror, swamp monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, usa, europe, holland, washington d.c., louisiana
Keyword: attack, doctors, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, independent film and psychotronic films with plots about monster, danger, supernatural, creature feature, deadly, creature and experiment gone awry mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Swamp Thing: Dark Universe (1993), Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988), Hydra (1971), The Fly II (1989), Sssssss (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dark Universe (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The shuttle crashes into a swampy region of central Florida, ...
Style: independent film, space horror, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, swamp, astronaut, female nudity, outer space, crash, trapped in space, female journalist, space mission, monster, space, space wars ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
Style: parody, cult classic, spoof, surreal, humorous ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, chase, mad scientist, creature, transformation, satire, killer, exploitation, villain, mad doctor, tiny, creature feature ...
Time: 80s
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.2
 5K
Hydra (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mad scientist (and apparent former Nazi) unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, gain revenge on those who have spurned him, and kidnap nubile young women to similarly transform so that he can breed. Or ...
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, mad scientist, transformation, creature, mutant, fish, octopus, laboratory, water monster, animal, 666 ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 25K
The Fly II (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Style: scary, cult classic, splatter, bloody, psychedelic ...
Plot: monster, gory, mad scientist, body horror, creature feature, voyeur, cocoon, mutation, insect, creature, transformation, laboratory ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.4
 4K
Sssssss (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly ...
Style: scary, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror ...
Plot: body horror, snake, laboratory, college student, mad scientist, killer animal, transformation, mutation, experiment, carnival, insanity, python ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, heroes, good versus evil, laboratory, disorder, spider, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Forbidden World (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Style: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, creature feature, mutant, laboratory, exploitation, creature, cocoon, monster, mad scientist, genetics, space and aliens, danger ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.0
 3K
Creepozoids (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of ...
Style: apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: post apocalypse, monster, alien, creature, creature feature, mutant, apocalypse, laboratory, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, kaiju, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 6.6
 43K
The Blob (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mutant, monster, experiment gone awry, supernatural, escapades, buddies, danger, beast, creature, transformation, creature feature, exploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: island, mad scientist, isolation, hybrid, laboratory, experiment, experiment gone awry, violence, genetic engineering, human animal relationship, creature, confined ...
Time: 1900s
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.8
 9K
It's Alive (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: supernatural, murder, creepy child, monster, body horror, gory, serial killer, isolation, mutant, investigation, deadly creature, family in danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, seattle, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 4.0
 3K
Parasite (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, alien, bio weapon, danger ...
Time: future, year 1982, year 1992, 90s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: super soldier, laboratory, creature, mutant, superhuman powers, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, monster, battles, deadly creature, danger, soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.5
 1K
Deep Space (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, technology gone awry, alien invasion, creature feature, outer space, rescue, mutant, alien encounter, rivalry, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: genetics, mad scientist, experiment, island, mutation, chaos and mayhem, dangerous animal, survival, mutant, experiment gone awry, stranded, brutality ...
Time: 90s, year 2010, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: indonesia, fictional island, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 28K
Swamp Thing (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: CDC researcher Abby Arcane returns to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus. There, she develops a surprising bond with scientist Alec Holland — only to have him tragically taken from her. But ...
Style: supernatural thriller, bleak, spooky, enigmatic, action adventure ...
Plot: swamp, monster, villain, superhero, cold blooded murder, danger, supernatural, multiverse, female sheriff, family secret, love interest, female scientist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.6
 17K
Chopping Mall (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. ...
Style: slasher, stylized, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, gory, murder, person on fire, killer robot, blood, monster, survival, party, androids and robots, technology gone awry ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
Style: humorous, epic, horror comedy, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: swamp, superhero, comic book, blonde, mad scientist, swamp monster, monster, multiverse, creature feature, villain, creature, avenger ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: skeleton, monster, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, laboratory, corpse, scientist, 666, insane asylum, body horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.9
 6K
Guyver (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa - a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation - being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as "The Guyver" from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, rescue, monster, martial arts, superhuman powers, heroic mission, good versus evil, space and aliens, superpower, experiment gone awry, anti hero, mad scientist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
 3.7
 2K
Mosquito Man (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mosquito, insect, experiment gone awry, monster, supernatural, danger, swat, body horror, virus, transformation, escaped prisoner, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Deadly Spawn (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. ...
Style: retro, cult horror, classic horror, slasher, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, parasite, gory, creature feature, creature, deadly creature, space, killer animal, exploitation, supernatural horror, evil alien ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.6
 2K
The Kindred (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, mutant, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, secrets, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Mutations (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Style: classic horror, funny, slasher, gothic horror, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, monster, exploitation, creature feature, creature, body horror, mutant, swing, occult, garden, alien, 666 ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.6
 4K
Carnosaur (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, mad scientist, virus, creature feature, danger, genetics, creature, kaiju, chaos, deadly creature, tyrannosaurus rex, disorder ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: nevada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.8
 348K
Hellboy (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, ...
Style: stylized, exciting, action packed, mystical, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, superhero, monster, good versus evil, supernatural ability, demon, occult, undercover, danger, comic hero, goth, steampunk ...
Time: year 2004, 1940s, y2k, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: new york, new jersey, america, moscow russia, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.6
 14K
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, police investigation, toxic, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, danger, survival, murder, exploitation, creature, mutant ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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