Movies like Critters

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Critters (1986)
 6.1
 39K
Critters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Style: scary, humorous, cult classic, horror comedy, suspenseful, semi serious, slasher, splatter, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, creature, alien invasion, alien monster, small town, intergalactic, creature feature, little creatures, space and aliens, evil alien, space, chaos, danger, misfit, family in danger, alien contact, eaten alive, ufo, extraterrestrial, zombie, camp, killer animal, suburbs, terror, outer space ...
Time: 80s
Place: kansas, usa, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Critters

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, horror comedy and humorous films with plots about monster, creature, danger, creature feature, deadly, escapades and deadly creature mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Comedy genres. Some movies like Critters: Gremlins (1984), Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Night of the Creeps (1986), Eight Legged Freaks (2002), Tremors (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.5
 17K
Critters 2 (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, splatter, scary, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, evil alien, monster, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien, easter, little creatures, creature feature, space, disaster, mad scientist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 246K
Gremlins (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, christmas horror, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, monster, supernatural, small town, transformation, creature, holiday, winter, deadly creature, gremlin, father son relationship, snow ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 13K
Critters 3 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno, the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy horrors.
Style: scary, splatter, slasher, humorous, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: alien, creature, alien invasion, little creatures, creature feature, monster, halloween, killer animal, extraterrestrial, tiny, alien creature, street punk ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Aliens, who look like clowns, arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people in order to use them as sustenance.
Style: parody, humorous, horror comedy, suspenseful, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: clown, ufo, monster, alien invasion, alien, killer clown, evil clown, extraterrestrial, evil alien, heroic mission, survival, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 2016, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style: horror comedy, slasher, grindhouse, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, zombie, college, undead, parasite, supernatural, macabre, teenager, survival, violence, gory, fraternity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 50s, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize ...
Style: scary, humorous, suspense, absurd, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: giant spider, spider, creature feature, monster, creature, disaster, giant monster, stupidity, dumb, heroes, mad scientist, killer animal ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 149K
Tremors (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before ...
Style: scary, entertaining, suspenseful, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: monster, creature feature, desert, survival, small town, deadly creature, creature, death, danger, stranded, rescue, mutant ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, future, 80s
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.4
 242K
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy ...
Style: parody, spoof, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: mars, ufo, alien invasion, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, disaster, save the world, dark humor, outer space, flying saucer, invasion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place: washington d.c., usa, las vegas, kentucky, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
 4.1
 8K
Critters 4 (1992)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Just before bounty hunter Charile triggers his gun to destroy the last two Critter-eggs, he gets a message that it would be illegal to extinguish the race from the galaxy. He's sent a transporter where he puts the eggs - unfortunately the ...
Style: futuristic, space horror, cult horror, classic horror, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, space, creature, little creatures, monster, creature feature, apocalypse, alien abduction, extraterrestrial, tiny, killer animal, alien invasion ...
Time: 90s, future, 2040s, year 1992, 20th century ...
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style: scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, small town, monster, creature feature, oil refinery, survival, giant monster, chase, metamorphosis, stranded, danger, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: mexico, usa, latin america, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, Nev., to find that the town of terror has become a theme park, and when the simulated giant worm attacks turn real, the survivalist must battle the creatures once again. Gummer pits his impressive knowledge of ...
Style: scary, humorous, natural horror, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature, small town, survival, creature feature, chase, giant monster, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, rescue, store, worm ...
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic ...
Plot: alien, evil alien, alien invasion, alien contact, mind control, deadly creature, ufo, monster, space and aliens, brutality, justice, space ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: iowa, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.
Style: scary, suspenseful, semi serious, natural horror, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: small town, giant spider, mutant, evil alien, monster, kaiju, spider, giant monster, experiment gone awry, save the world, deadly creature, amateur detective ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.2
 12K
Hobgoblins (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of hobgoblins, who allow you to live out your fantasies but kill you in the process, escape from a studio vault, and a security guard and his friends must stop them before dawn.
Style: mockbuster, horror comedy, scenic, independent film, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: puppet, monster, gremlin, supernatural, creature feature, alien invasion, evil alien, alien, creature, exploitation, little creatures, mutant ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 133K
The Watch (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, father daughter relationship, invasion, friendship, space and aliens, creature, farce, profanity, disguise, silly humor, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 75K
Arachnophobia (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly
Plot: spider, creature feature, arachnophobia, jungle, expedition, monster, creature, killer animal, insect, dangerous animal, small town, animal ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, south america, venezuela, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Night of the Comet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous ...
Style: scary, black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, zombie, end of the world, disaster, mad scientist, survival, teenager, radio station, dystopia, sister sister relationship, zombie attack, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 88K
Slither (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style: suspense, entertaining, black comedy, space horror, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: alien, monster, parasite, zombie, body horror, alien invasion, gory, zombie attack, infection, creature feature, creature, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 136K
Evolution (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, light ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, evolution, heroic mission, save the world, giant monster, monster, space and aliens, disaster, disorder, alien contact, evil alien ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2001, post world war two, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 35K
Cursed (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
Style: scary, slasher, teen, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, bullying, transformation, lycanthropy, female werewolf, gory, curse, violence, monster, creature feature, chase ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.0
 35K
Troll 2 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young child is terrified to discover that a planned family trip is to be haunted by vile plant-eating monsters out of his worst nightmare...
Style: cult classic, scary, humorous, funny, retro ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, small town, little creatures, sexual innuendo, person on fire, exploitation, creature, camp, youth, destiny, seduction, child in peril ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
24%
Blood Suckers from Outer Space (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Farmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
Style: independent film, semi serious, scary, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, vampire, alien invasion, alien, paranormal, fear, exploitation, ufo, experiment gone awry, military life, countryside, gory ...
Time: 80s
Place: austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 49K
Bad Taste (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style: splatter, bloody, grindhouse, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, alien invasion, violent, zombie, space and aliens, alien, extreme, exploitation, small town, ufo, chainsaw, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place: new zealand, oceania, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Style: funny, horror comedy, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, dark humor, undead, supernatural, apocalypse, toxic waste, infected, plague, gory, youth, night of the living dead, epidemic ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
 65K
Lake Placid (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, ...
Style: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: crocodile, killer animal, dangerous animal, gory, sea monster, rescue, eaten alive, voyeur, investigation, escapades, danger, creature feature ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, jurassic
Place: maine, new york, usa, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, heroic mission, mars, danger, alien encounter, young heroes, space and aliens, imaginary, heroes, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.8
 45K
Piranha 3DD (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: piranha, nudity, killer animal, youth, killer fish, party, danger, dark humor, creature, blonde, teenage girl, fish ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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