Movies like Moontrap

If you like "Moontrap" you are looking for space horror, apocalyptic and cult classic movies about / with moon, nasa, astronaut, alien invasion, space, monster and robot themes of Horror and Sci-Fi genre shot in USA.
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Moontrap (1988)
 4.8
 4K
Moontrap (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
Style: space horror, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: moon, nasa, astronaut, alien invasion, space, monster, robot, spaceship, alien, outer space, post apocalypse, ufo, space exploration, evil alien, apocalypse, machine, epidemic, star wars, giant monster, terminator, creature, space opera, post apocalyptic, scientist, killer robot ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 60s, year 1969, 1960s
Keyword: visit, oldies

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Most similar movies to Moontrap

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychotronic films with plots about space and aliens, danger, alien, escapades, monster, heroes and alien invasion mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Action genres. Some movies like Moontrap: The Dark Side of the Moon (1990), Creature (1985), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Deep Space (1988), Dark Universe (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and ...
Style: tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, space horror ...
Plot: supernatural, spacecraft, outer space, space, moon, isolation, escapades, danger, good versus evil, technology gone awry, confined, alien invasion ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 5K
Creature (1985)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ ...
Style: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, space, creature, alien invasion, creature feature, monster, gory, zombie, exploitation, alien abduction, virus, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, space travel, fear, evil alien, space monster, spacecraft, spaceship, planet, raped by monster, graphic violence, pyramid ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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Dark Universe (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The shuttle crashes into a swampy region of central Florida, ...
Style: independent film, space horror, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, swamp, astronaut, female nudity, outer space, crash, trapped in space, female journalist, space mission, monster, space, space wars ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, heroic mission, mars, danger, alien encounter, young heroes, space and aliens, imaginary, heroes, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Queen of Blood (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A spaceship is sent to Mars after a alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster.
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, bleak, space horror ...
Plot: vampire, alien, mars, rescue, spacecraft, supernatural, space, space travel, save the world, danger, survival, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1966, 90s, year 1990, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult classic, suspense, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, robot, epidemic, survival horror, post apocalyptic, evil robot, dystopia ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Crash and Burn (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: androids and robots, apocalypse, terminator, robot, machine, cyborgs, wasteland, monster, giant monster, stop motion, distopia, evil computer ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities ...
Style: intense, suspenseful, serious, mockbuster, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, survival, space travel, save the world, introspection, heroic mission, danger, supernatural, dystopian future, mars ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.5
 4K
Stranded (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, trapped in space, space, supernatural, isolation, danger, alien encounter, space exploration, trapped, alien, fear, paranoia ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
Style: rough, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, evil alien, space travel, save the world, artificial intelligence, man versus machine, danger, dystopian future, apocalypse, imaginary, alien, giant monster ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
54%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The X from Outer Space (1967)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with ...
Style: daikaiju, grindhouse, suspense, cult classic, retro ...
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, ufo, mars, alien invasion, spacesuit, alien, spaceship, dinosaur, moon base, rescue ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 4.2
 2K
Nightbeast (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An alien crash lands and goes on a killing spree.
Style: grindhouse, cult horror, slasher, retro, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, creature feature, creature, outer space, bare breasts, exploitation, motorcycle, murder, evil alien, small town, ufo, space monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.7
 1K
Ejecta (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, space horror, independent film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, evil alien, space and aliens, survival, alien abduction, alien encounter, truth, alien, found footage, danger, heroes, graphic violence ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Movie in collections
 4.8
 19K
Supernova (2000)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, space, robot, rescue, space and aliens, survival, danger, end of the world, natural disaster, heroic mission, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space ...
Style: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, fast, scary ...
Plot: monster, martian, frankenstein, nasa, brain damage, alien monster, alien, alien invasion, mars, space monster, frankenstein's monster, spacesuit ...
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
52%
 5.1
 1K
Shadowzone (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: monster, alien, alien invasion, space, creature, nasa, female nudity, big breasts, bare breasts, extraterrestrial, violent content, nudity ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.2
 11K
Species III (2004)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: female alien, alien, transformation, shape shifting alien, space and aliens, evil alien, laboratory, femme fatale, sex scene, military, breeding, chaos ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 3.5
 1K
Dead Space (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Phaebon had been thought to be a safe and controlled research facility until a distress signal calls for Commander Kreiger and his robot Tinpan. Together, they try to save the planet from a spreading virus and an odd and growing cocoon. Remake of ...
Style: futuristic, cult horror, lovecraft, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: monster, space, apocalypse, alien, virus, space opera, alien invasion, ufo, creature, alien abduction, body horror, distopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
52%
 5.0
 30K
Virus (1999)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: virus, alien, robot, alien invasion, deadly creature, cyborgs, survival, ship, ghost ship, ocean, rescue, natural disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Alien Apocalypse (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, save the world, heroic mission, alien encounter, chaos, rivalry, post apocalypse, dystopian future, space travel, space wars, imaginary, chases and races ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Horror Planet (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Style: space horror, grindhouse, scary, psychotronic, retro ...
Plot: alien, pregnancy, rape, impregnation, murder, cave, evil alien, characters killed one by one, space monster, trapped in space, planet, creature ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.1
 10K
Saturn 3 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer robot, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, scientist, space station, artificial intelligence, space, obsession, androids and robots, woman in danger, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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