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New Alcatraz (2001)
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New Alcatraz (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Paleontologist Robert Trenton (Dean Cain) is called to Northeastern Antarctica near the Indian Ocean to help the FBI build an underground maximum-security military base and prison for the world's most dangerous criminals and terrorists. The prison is dubbed "New Alcatraz" by the staff. While building the prison, the staff accidentally awaken and unleash a prehistoric Boa Constrictor from its 200 year hibernation. The snake escapes unnoticed until the staff notice a massive hole chewed in the five-foot thick concrete walls. Soon, the staff, and prisoners begin disappearing as they are brutally hunted and eaten by the snake. The FBI agents, Trenton and the rest of the prisoners try to escape, but are hampered as they don't have many weapons. They begin to give up hope as most of the survivors die. However, Trenton manages to blow up the snake underground before escaping to the surface with the only other survivor being his wife.
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, scary, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, prison, giant snake, survival, isolation, danger, confined, ancient mystery, deadly creature, monster, winter, killer animal, creature, escape, animal attack, creature feature, kaiju, dinosaur, snow, reptiles, supernatural, escapades, prehistoric creature, killer snake, prisoner ...
Time: prehistoric times
Place: antarctica, south pole, antarctic
Keyword: attack

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, natural horror and scary films with plots about danger, animal horror, deadly, creature, monster, creature feature and escapades mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like New Alcatraz: Pterodactyl (2005), Caved In (2006), Frost Giant (2010), Snakes on a Train (2006), Deep Shock (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pterodactyl (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Russia, Armenia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, pterodactyl, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, creature feature, expedition, dinosaur, save the day, save the world, heroic mission, paleontologist, race against time ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: armenia, turkey
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100%
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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%
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Frost Giant (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A team searching for a long-lost ship in the Arctic unwittingly unleash an alien creature that looks like it's made of ice.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: evil alien, survival, isolation, danger, deadly creature, treasure hunt, supernatural, disaster, frozen body, autopsy, snow, creature ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 1800s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Snakes on a Train (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los ...
Style: mockbuster, suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, curse, train, giant snake, deadly creature, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, confined, killer animal, characters killed one by one, transformation ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Deep Shock (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, apocalypse, disaster, collision, danger, save the world, investigation, rescue, heroic mission, chaos, government agency, deadly creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Snake Island (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of American tourists heading down an African river make a brief stop at Snake Island, an island that has been virtually abandoned for years. When they end up getting trapped on the island overnight, they find thousands of deadly snakes ...
Style: surreal, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, captivating ...
Plot: snake, giant snake, island, survival, isolation, danger, heroes, poison, animal attack, monster, killer animal, creature feature ...
Time: jurassic
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.9
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Snakeman (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An object is found that points to the secret of eternal youth so a research team is sent to find the fountain only to find it is protected by a giant snake
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, captivating, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, giant snake, amazon, giant monster, heroic mission, survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, monster, killer animal, creature feature, amazon tribe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In the countryside, the boy Alan and his friend Becky steal a creepy wooden box with a powerful voodoo stick inside from his voodooistic neighbor. When the boy draws with the stick, his drunken father is attacked by a snake and vanishes. Years ...
Style: scary, rough, suspense, sexy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, voodoo, giant snake, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, danger, creature, creature feature, supernatural, eaten alive, group of friends, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Raptor (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, survival, rescue, dangerous animal, disorder, small town life, experiment gone awry, race against time, deadly creature, heroes, danger, killer animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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%
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%
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Python 2 (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The beast is back.
Style: natural horror, scenic, suspense, fast, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer animal, snake, creature feature, creature, dangerous animal, survival, rescue, race against time, danger, undercover, monster, giant monster ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
30%
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Python (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the town's tranquillity on it's path of death and destruction... Growing violent and more savage with each attack the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, queer horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: snake, giant snake, dangerous animal, killer animal, scientist, monster, race against time, deadly creature, creature, creature feature, danger, experiment gone awry ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Silent Venom (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, submarine, underwater, dangerous animal, mutant, survival, military, race against time, save the day, isolation, danger, daring rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, korea, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Raptor Island (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lost world, creature feature, soldier, kaiju, battles, military, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, escapades, rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Snakehead Terror (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer animal, monster, creature feature, isolation, survival, escapades, supernatural, small town life, experiment gone awry, chaos, animal life, disorder ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: amazon river, giant snake, snake, survival, killer animal, creature, monster, betrayal, danger, escapades, obsessive quest, jungle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Vipers (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Vipers is a 2008 film directed by Bill Corcoran. It stars Tara Reid and Corbin Bernsen. It premiered on the Sci Fi Channel on September 21, 2008, and was released on DVD on September 23, 2008. A set of vipers has been taken by the scientists, and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, dark ...
Plot: snake, island, survival, isolation, dangerous animal, deadly creature, danger, mad scientist, laboratory, chaos and mayhem, killer animal, monster ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crocodile, swamp, killer animal, survival, creature feature, monster, confined, criminal heroes, danger, chases and races, daring rescue, wilderness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, soldier, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, survival, escapades, deadly creature, heroes, danger, supernatural, terrorism ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: russia, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Venomous (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, rattlesnake, small town, survival, race against time, plague, deadly creature, heroic mission, mutation, undercover, forces of nature, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: jurassic
Place: maryland, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
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Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
Style: natural horror, scary, independent film, serious, rough
Plot: dinosaur, monster, creature feature, kaiju, creature, killer animal, exploitation, giant monster, reptiles, terrorism, tyrannosaurus rex, animal attack ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.6
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Tape 407 (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense ...
Plot: found footage, creature, survival, dinosaur, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, government facility, creature feature, airplane crash, government, eaten alive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.2
 1K
Shark Hunter (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, deadly creature, race against time, obsession, escapades, rescue ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Mongolian Death Worm (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an American oil company sets up an experimental drilling plant out in the vast deserts of Mongolia, they awaken a nest. The deadly creatures begin to breed and spread, devouring everyone in their path. The only person who can stop them is ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, natural horror, exciting, serious
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, monster, deadly creature, treasure hunt, rescue, supernatural, adventurer, creature, danger, creature feature, killer animal, giant monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mongolia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.2
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King Cobra (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.
Style: serious, tense, experimental, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: giant snake, laboratory, snake, dangerous animal, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, escapades, small town, martial arts, animal attack, science runs amok, shark ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: mountain, skiing, isolation, deadly creature, survival, danger, bigfoot, friendship, supernatural, snow, winter, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Silent Predators (1999)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, ...
Style: natural horror, serious, scary, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, creature feature, supernatural, animal attack, killer snake, creature, killer animal, shark, nature, monster, animal life, disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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