Movies like How to Make a Monster
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How to Make a Monster (2001)
2K
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, teen horror ...
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
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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 supernatural, danger, deadly, escapades, monster, experiment gone awry and creature feature mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like How to Make a Monster: Webs (2003), Earth vs. the Spider (2001), Phantoms (1998), Proteus (1995), Brainscan (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
781
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:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
giant spider, parallel world, survival, experiment gone awry, supernatural, dangerous animal, chaos, heroic mission, deadly creature, escapades, rivalry, rescue ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, deadly creature, supernatural, heroes, mad scientist, good versus evil, danger, laboratory, disorder, spider, monster ...
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
100%
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, scary, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, changing the past or future, mind control, gang, laboratory, mad scientist, deadly creature, experiment gone awry, danger, ocean, drug dealing, creature feature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia, china
Similarity:
100%
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14K
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:
disturbing, creepy, tech noir, twist ending, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virtual reality, computer, computer game, macabre, cursed object, murder, experiment gone awry, video game, voyeurism, teenager, cyberpunk, transformation ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Similarity:
100%
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, cyber, bad ending, suspense ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyberspace, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, man versus machine, eye, vengeance, internet, computer, computer hacker, intelligence, animal experimentation ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
arizona, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
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, mad scientist, superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, monster, battles, soldier, danger, terrorism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
56%
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:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, rescue, apocalypse, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, distant planet, deadly creature, man versus machine, space travel, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
53%
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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:
escapades, chase, chases and races, rivalry, danger, man versus machine, chaos, survival, female protagonist, graphic violence, car, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa
Similarity:
53%
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:
body horror, space and aliens, evil alien, astronaut, supernatural, escapades, space travel, artificial intelligence, battles, disorder, nasa, mad scientist ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
51%
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:
survival, supernatural, deadly creature, rivalry, escapades, crime gone awry, danger, betrayal, gory, alien, monster, native ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: 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, rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, rottweiler, chase, manhunt, technology gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, danger, gory, on the run, killer dog, dog ...
Time:
future
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
50%
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, supernatural, plague, eaten alive, virus, epidemic, danger, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
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, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, caveman, bare chested male, lesbianism, decapitation, plague, teenage life, youth, dystopian future, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, stone age
Similarity:
50%
12K
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, rough, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
bat, disaster, animal attack, mad scientist, small town, supernatural, creature feature, monster, dangerous animal, mutation, danger, save the day ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
49%
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:
creature, creature feature, deadly creature, gory, danger, social relations, escapades, mine, female nudity, monster, winter, snow ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 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:
experiment gone awry, deadly creature, evil alien, space and aliens, rivalry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, gory, race against time, mad scientist, danger ...
Similarity:
48%
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:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
experiment gone awry, supernatural, government agency, deadly creature, save the world, survival, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, special agent, chase ...
Similarity:
48%
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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:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dangerous animal, survival, isolation, chaos, race against time, danger, college, heroic mission, killer animal, amusement park, creature feature, laboratory ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
47%
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, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mythical creature, eye, heroic mission, supernatural, heroes, survival, rivalry, race against time, experiment gone awry, danger, escapades, government agency ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
47%
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, dangerous animal, danger, chaos, supernatural, creature, murder, scientist, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
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, medical horror, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, bio weapon, danger, plague ...
Time:
future, year 1992, year 1982, 90s, near future ...
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
47%
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, dark, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creature, mutant, secrets, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Similarity:
46%
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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:
slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, voyeur, eaten alive, chaos, deadly creature, military, soldier, danger, survival, chaos and mayhem, plague ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a species of "Judas" bugs and introduced them into the ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, cult horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, giant insect, creature, insect, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, mutation, creature feature, good versus evil, rescue, survival ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
45%
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, creature feature, desert, animal attack, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, space and aliens, danger, journalism, monster, killer animal, news reporter ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
45%
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:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, experiment gone awry, danger, plague, supernatural, rivalry, deadly creature, murder, monster, creature feature, insect, creature ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, humorous, scary ...
Plot:
space and aliens, rivalry, heroes, escapades, danger, supernatural, chases and races, deadly creature, disorder, mutant, experiment gone awry, chaos ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.
Style:
mockbuster, suspenseful, serious, scary, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
androids and robots, space and aliens, terminator, danger, imaginary, space travel, chaos, rebelliousness, man versus machine, heroes, heroic mission, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
43%
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, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
snake, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, giant snake, monster, reptile, danger, plague, heroic mission, killer animal, creature, human versus animal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
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