Movies like The Dark 1993

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The Dark (1993)
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The Dark (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this miraculous being. Stalking the creature in it's subterranean habitat, neither man is aware of the battle they are about to start. A battle for science, survival and revenge.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, survival, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, tunnel, supernatural, danger, special agent, scientist, creature feature, monster, revenge, killer animal, cemetery, grave, exploitation, law enforcer, diner, heroes, adventurer, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, animal life, disorder ...
Time: prehistory

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense and scary films with plots about danger, deadly, supernatural, escapades, deadly creature, creature and creature feature mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Dark: Caved In (2006), The Bone Snatcher (2003), Snakehead Terror (2004), Bugs (2003), Dinocroc (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Caved In (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, treasure hunt, escapades, good versus evil, legends and myths, destiny, danger, adventurer, survival, rivalry, dangerous animal, forces of nature ...
Time: prehistory
Place: greece, switzerland, europe
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100%
The Bone Snatcher (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, natural horror, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, desert, supernatural ability, survival, deadly creature, danger, survival horror, creature feature, ant, travel, exploitation, mysterious disappearance ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Snakehead Terror (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer animal, monster, creature feature, isolation, survival, escapades, supernatural, small town life, experiment gone awry, chaos, animal life, disorder ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Bugs (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three metre long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: monster, insect, creature, dangerous animal, danger, deadly creature, race against time, chaos, special agent, swat, killer animal, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dinocroc (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, crocodile, killer animal, monster, genetic engineering, creature, experiment gone awry, creature feature, chaos, danger, survival, adventurer ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Scanner Cop (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to ...
Style: scary, rough, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, investigation, vengeance, gory, rivalry, danger, fighting crime, supernatural ability, police station, adoption, cop ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, mythical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, sea monster, killer animal, creature feature, loch ness monster, lost world, abandoned mine, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, gory ...
Time: jurassic, year 1976, 2000s
Place: scotland, europe, scottish highlands, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Piranha (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, rough ...
Plot: piranha, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, summer camp, deadly creature, danger, mutant, gory, chaos, creature feature, killer animal, animal attack ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Full Eclipse (1993)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a ...
Style: slasher, detective, fast, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lycanthropy, werewolf, vampire, supernatural being, wolf, kaiju, worship, die hard, female nudity, rape, interracial sex, chaos ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 798
They Crawl (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.2
 839
Bottom Feeder (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: mutant, tunnel, monster, creature feature, danger, dangerous animal, supernatural, chaos, creature, murder, scientist, survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.6
 2K
Scintilla (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital ...
Style: tense, bleak, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, experiment gone awry, danger, mutant, heroes, deadly creature, military base, laboratory, monster, wilhelm scream, mercenary, anti hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.3
 3K
Kaw (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: bird attack, bird, small town, curse, diner, danger, misfit, deadly creature, gory, isolation, social relations, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
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Larva (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, deadly creature, survival, disorder, chaos, supernatural, danger, plague, dangerous animal, society, small town, experiment gone awry ...
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Unseen Evil (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, survival, crime gone awry, danger, escapades, rivalry, betrayal, gory, alien, monster, native ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, soldier, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, survival, escapades, deadly creature, heroes, danger, supernatural, terrorism ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: russia, chechnya
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23%
 3.9
 3K
Spiders (2000)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: giant spider, mutant, creature feature, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, danger, space and aliens, journalism, desert, monster, killer animal, news reporter ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 5.2
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The Thaw (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, quarantine, plague, expedition, infected, deadly creature, scientist, beast, disaster, danger, epidemic, infection ...
Time: prehistory, 21st century
Place: canada
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22%
 3.3
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Monster Ark (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This is film-making of the shoddiest and laziest sort. Every scene is a showcase for the writer/director's ignorance. O'Brien is completely unfamiliar with science. He knows nothing of how scientists talk, how they analyze, how they ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, tomb, monster, survival, ancient mystery, danger, desert, creature, reptiles, creature feature, shipwreck, noah's ark ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, israel
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22%
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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 ⇓
22%
Pegasus Vs. Chimera (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two mythological creatures battle each other.
Style: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: sword and sorcery, good versus evil, supernatural, dangerous animal, danger, wizards and magicians, battles, legends and myths, imaginary, vengeance, heroes, escapades ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Slime People (1963)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
Style: serious, scary, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Plot: mutant, monster, battles, chaos, heroes, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, save the world, apocalypse, fog, evil alien ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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
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22%
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Black Swarm (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: killer animal, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, danger, survival, bio weapon, deadly creature, investigation, escapades, violent content, insect, graphic violence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Warriors of Terra (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. They...
Style: serious, scary, suspense, captivating
Plot: survival, experiment gone awry, genetic engineering, mutant, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, confined, laboratory, breaking and entering, father daughter relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.4
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Killer Rats (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, survival, dangerous animal, supernatural, danger, gory, creature feature, killer animal, animal, scared, eye, end of the world ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 2K
They Nest (2000)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: insect, cockroach, mad scientist, rescue, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, experiment gone awry, family in danger, isolation, island, doctor ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england, boston, atlantic ocean, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dead Shadows (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: survival, supernatural, danger, chaos, mutant, creature, post apocalypse, zombie, post apocalyptic, paranormal, virus, alien ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Psychic Experiment (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, chaos, small town, supernatural, small community, dark secret, under the surface, survival, violent content, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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