Movies like Mimic 2

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Mimic 2 (2001)
 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 environment, where they were to "mimic" the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey.....humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant cockroaches are back, and this time they've mutated to take on human form!
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, classic horror, surprise ending, wild
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, mutant, creature, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, insect, mutation, creature feature, survival, psychopath, plague, rescue, high school, good versus evil, giant insect, danger, monster, killer animal, apocalypse, alien, distopia, epidemic, nature, invasion ...
Time: contemporary
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and natural horror films with plots about deadly, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, escapades, monster and supernatural mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mimic 2: Mimic (1997), Caved In (2006), The Relic (1997), Webs (2003), Arachnid (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: insect, virus, cockroach, disease, creature, experiment gone awry, tunnel, entomologist, monster, giant insect, epidemic, mutation ...
Time: 90s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 1K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 30K
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%
 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%
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 4.0
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Arachnid (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Arachnid is a 2001 film directed by Jack Sholder. In this movie, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spider, giant spider, creature feature, mutation, survival, island, cocoon, insect, heroic mission, alien, isolation, danger ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
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 ⇓
34%
 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 ⇓
33%
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 4.9
 2K
The Rats (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, rat, subway, gory, deadly creature, danger, escapades, hospital, isolation, killer animal, urban ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
28%
 3.2
 2K
The Hive (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called in to stop the massive threat, only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ant, invasion, eaten alive, rescue, supernatural, survival, good versus evil, dangerous animal, escapades, space and aliens, danger, jungle ...
Time: 2000s
Place: thailand, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
28%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 3.3
 352
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 ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
27%
 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 ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Style: scary, slasher, natural horror, perverse, spoof ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, shark, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, fish, underwater, scuba diving, sea, gory, island ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
Empire of the Ants (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Style: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ant, supernatural, giant insect, monster, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, danger, deadly creature, dangerous animal, toxic ...
Place: florida, everglades, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.3
 1K
Skeeter (1993)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!
Style: natural horror, retro, cult classic, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, insect, killer animal, monster, small town, motorcycle, sheriff, death, exploitation, animal attack, creature, toxic ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
25%
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Shark Attack 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A biological experiment goes bad, this time releasing a gaggle of mutated great white sharks with a taste for human flesh. Soon enough, shark expert Nick West is on the case, leading a crew to study them and eventually bring them back into ...
Style: rough, natural horror, mockbuster, suspense, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark attack, monster, killer shark, shark, rescue, survival, killer animal, race against time, danger, animal attack, creature, sea monster ...
Time: 2000s
Place: cape town south africa, south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
 5.6
 8K
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 ⇓
25%
 3.4
 383
Deadly Swarm (2003)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seeking out a cure for his wife's serious illness, scientist Dr. Schroeder (McCormack) heads deep into a forbidden jungle in Guatemala, trapping thousands of killer wasps. Working with secret military backing, it is Schroeder's contention ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror
Plot: insect, deadly creature, supernatural, survival, journalism, mutant, rivalry, escapades, isolation, danger, experiment gone awry, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
 5.1
 5K
Abominable (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, action packed ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, woods, supernatural, creature, creature feature, survival, danger, legends and myths, monster, deadly creature, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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