Movies like Mimic

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Mimic (1997)
 6.0
 55K
Mimic (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, cult classic, psychological, retro, dark, art house ...
Plot: insect, virus, cockroach, disease, creature, experiment gone awry, tunnel, entomologist, monster, giant insect, epidemic, mutation, creature feature, metamorphosis, alien, mutant, scientist, eaten alive, evolution, deadly creature, autism, father son relationship, subway, apocalypse, giant monster ...
Time: 90s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa, manhattan, new york city

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Most similar movies to Mimic

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about monster, creature feature, creature, deadly, danger, supernatural and escapades mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mimic: The Relic (1997), The Thing (2011), Mimic: Sentinel (2003), Phantoms (1998), Cloverfield (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Relic (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, splatter ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, human versus monster, supernatural, museum, deadly creature, gory, beast, creature, violence, fear, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: chicago, brazil, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 6K
Mimic 2 (2001)
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, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, mutant, creature, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, insect, mutation, creature feature, rescue, good versus evil, survival ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 145K
The Thing (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, gory, alien invasion, deadly creature, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, survival, apocalypse, danger, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 80s, year 1982 ...
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, creature feature, psychopath, danger, mind game, serial killer, plague, race against time, investigation ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.4
 22K
Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 419K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 41K
Splinter (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, zombie, infection, infected, macabre, monster, virus, parasite, death, body horror, supernatural, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.6
 200K
The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 41K
Deep Rising (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, futuristic, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, sea monster, deadly creature, creature feature, tentacle, ship, ocean, killer animal, creature, ghost ship, survival horror, bermuda triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: bolivia, pacific ocean, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
33%
 5.3
 3K
The Nest (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cockroach, insect, island, killer animal, experiment, creature, monster, experiment gone awry, scientist, dangerous animal, danger, animal attack ...
Time: 80s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
30%
 5.2
 13K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 6K
Ticks (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
Style: scary, tense, semi serious, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mutant, monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, giant insect, creature, wilderness, buddies, youth, danger, drug abuse, animal attack ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.1
 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 ⇓
28%
 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%
 4.4
 1K
Watchers II (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
Style: dark, classic horror, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: dog, monster, creature, creature feature, alien, cybernetics, alien monster, experiment gone awry, nudity, violent content, gory, imaginary ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 3.4
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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 ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Style: scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, raped by monster, rape, monster, impregnation, survival, creature feature, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, fisherman, humanoid ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 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 ⇓
27%
 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 ⇓
27%
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Night of the Lepus (1972)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, absurd ...
Plot: giant animal, mutation, monster, gene manipulation, creature feature, experiment gone awry, giant monster, chaos, dangerous animal, mad scientist, danger, heroes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.8
 3K
Mosquito (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. National Park. Some mosquitos begin to feed from the alien's corpses, causing them to grow to the size of a vulture. These mutant insects became very agressive, killing every human being they find. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, absurd, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mosquito, mutant, park ranger, monster, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, chaos, mutation, space and aliens, battles, creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 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 ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
Harbinger Down (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, ...
Style: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: alien, creature, creature feature, infection, ship, winter, scientist, fishing boat, monster, body horror, snow, military ...
Time: year 1982
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher ...
Plot: rat, post apocalypse, dangerous animal, mutant, survival, danger, deadly creature, survival horror, save the world, chaos, gory, laboratory ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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