Movies like How to Make a Monster

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How to Make a Monster (2001)
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How to Make a Monster (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Video game developer Clayton Software enlists the talents of a misfit group of programmers to develop the scariest computer combat game: EVILUTION. With four weeks to bring the game to market and a million-dollar bonus on the line, they utilize a telemetry suit to render a 3-D version of the onscreen player. But when a power surge gives the hard drive a mind of its own, the suit comes to life to play the game for real and the programming tam find themselves in the middle of a chilling virtual nightmare beyond their wildest imagination.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gaming, scary, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, computer animated ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, monster, artificial intelligence, video game, survival, supernatural, experiment gone awry, save the day, heroic mission, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, chaos, danger, deadly creature, technology gone awry, laboratory, man versus machine, computer, computer nerd, human versus computer, fantasy becomes reality, creature feature, machine, technology ...
Time: contemporary
Keyword: a.i., alias

Most similar movies to How to Make a Monster

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about deadly, danger, escapades, supernatural, experiment gone awry, creature feature and deadly creature mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like How to Make a Monster: Earth vs. the Spider (2001), Webs (2003), Brainscan (1994), Proteus (1995), The Lawnmower Man (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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100%
 3.8
 750
Webs (2003)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: giant spider, parallel world, survival, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, supernatural, chaos, heroic mission, rescue, rivalry, escapades, deadly creature ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 13K
Brainscan (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style: scary, disturbing, twist ending, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virtual reality, murder, computer, macabre, video game, experiment gone awry, cyberpunk, mentor, transformation, technology gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 1K
Proteus (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, scary, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, mutant, laboratory, gang, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, mad scientist, danger, ocean, drug dealing, creature feature, alien ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, cyber, atmospheric ...
Plot: cyberpunk, cyberspace, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, vengeance, internet, computer, experiment gone awry, computer hacker, hacking, hacker, mentally challenged ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: arizona, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
56%
Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group ...
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, rescue, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, space travel, apocalypse, distant planet, man versus machine, deadly creature, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.1
 2K
Super Hybrid (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at ...
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: man versus machine, chases and races, rivalry, danger, chase, escapades, survival, female protagonist, violent content, graphic violence, car, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 3.3
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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 ⇓
51%
 5.5
 3K
The Boogens (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, creature, gory, danger, social relations, experiment gone awry, escapades, creature feature, winter, snow, monster ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, evil alien, astronaut, body horror, mutant, escapades, supernatural, space travel, disorder, battles, danger, imaginary ...
Time: 70s
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51%
Mulberry Street (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, infection, rat, dangerous animal, survival, apocalypse, supernatural, save the world, plague, virus, epidemic, danger ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Teenage Caveman (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, survival, caveman, chaos and mayhem, danger, life is a bitch, society, vampire, dystopian future, apocalypse, mutant, post apocalypse ...
Time: stone age, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.7
 937
Alien Lockdown (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil alien, experiment gone awry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, deadly creature, survival, gory, danger, save the world, mad scientist, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.0
 11K
Bats (1999)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Style: scary, intense, suspenseful, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: bat, mad scientist, small town, disaster, supernatural, mutation, monster, animal attack, creature feature, survival, danger, save the day ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: texas, usa
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49%
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Project Viper (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, fast
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, experiment gone awry, government agency, deadly creature, save the world, survival, chaos, heroic mission, danger, race against time, special agent, space travel ...
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 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 ⇓
47%
House of the Dead 2 (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Guesta Verde University, the deranged Professor Curien is trying to bring back the dead, killing students for the experiment. There is an outbreak of zombies in the campus, and the government sends a NSA medical research team, formed by Dr. ...
Style: serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, chaos, soldier, danger, deadly creature, survival, military, plague, chaos and mayhem, antidote, college ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
47%
Attack of the Sabertooth (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, survival, isolation, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, college, killer animal, creature feature, amusement park, laboratory ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Rottweiler (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dante travels across a desolate, futuristic Spain in search of his girlfriend, Ula. He is pursued by a bloodthirsty, cybernetic Rottweiler.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, rottweiler, chase, killer dog, manhunt, technology gone awry, dangerous animal, danger, deadly creature, gory, on the run, dog ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
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Living Hell (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in it's path.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the world, heroic mission, race against time, heroes, supernatural, rivalry, survival, experiment gone awry, government agency, danger, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.6
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Isolation (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, infection, creature feature, farm, quarantine, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, race against time, danger, escapades, genetic engineering ...
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: snake, dangerous animal, monster, experiment gone awry, giant snake, plague, heroic mission, danger, killer animal, creature, survival, human versus animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Dragon Fighter (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dragon, survival, experiment gone awry, imaginary, chaos, dangerous animal, heroes, rescue, supernatural, danger, good versus evil, disorder ...
Time: jurassic, middle ages, 20th century, 2000s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Night Shadows (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, mutant, small town, zombie, survival, chaos, danger, experiment gone awry, infection, plague, undead, virus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.4
 1K
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 ⇓
43%
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