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Spasms (1983)
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Spasms (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Style: suspense, retro, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror, independent film, detective, weird
Plot: monster, creature feature, killer snake, college, poison, animal attack, research, canuxploitation, obsession, laboratory, body horror, giant snake, snake, ship, sea, paranormal, creature, corpse, college professor, native tribe, indigenous people, animal, telepathy, killer animal, horse ...
Time: year 1983
Place: san diego california
Keyword: short shorts

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Most similar movies to Spasms

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic and scary films with plots about monster, creature, creature feature, animal horror, deadly, danger and animal attack mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Spasms: Alien (1979), Deep Rising (1998), Forbidden World (1982), Of Unknown Origin (1983), Blue Monkey (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.5
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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 ⇓
100%
 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%
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 ⇓
100%
Of Unknown Origin (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, splatter ...
Plot: house, poison, danger, social misfits, mind game, obsession, killer animal, terror, mutant, monster, creature feature, home invasion ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: new york, usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.8
 1K
Blue Monkey (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite ...
Style: retro, suspense, cult horror, surprise ending, independent film ...
Audience: kids
Plot: giant monster, creature feature, monster, creature, insect, exploitation, animal attack, kaiju, body horror, virus, infection, bacteria ...
Time: year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.8
 34K
The Brood (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, creepy ...
Plot: body horror, killer child, murder, creepy child, transformation, supernatural, child abuse, psychiatrist, mental illness, strangulation, monster, surrealism ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Food of the Gods II (1989)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
Style: natural horror, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Plot: animal attack, giant monster, kaiju, creature feature, body horror, nature, tiny, college, exploitation, insect, monster, giant animal ...
Time: year 1989
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.4
 4K
Sssssss (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly ...
Style: scary, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror ...
Plot: body horror, snake, laboratory, college student, mad scientist, killer animal, transformation, mutation, experiment, carnival, insanity, python ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 3.4
 2K
Sabertooth (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, disturbing ...
Plot: dangerous animal, animal attack, experiment gone awry, killer animal, science runs amok, creature feature, tiger, animal experimentation, danger, gory, killed by an animal, brutality ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
51%
 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 ⇓
51%
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: US Navy battles monsters unearthed from the frozen arctic.
Style: retro, suspense, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, u.s. navy, man eating plant, giant monster, creature, sea, winter, scientist, tropical island, navy, airplane crash ...
Time: year 1966
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.5
 1K
Mega Snake (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Duff Daniels (John T. Woods), the younger, stupider brother of Les (Michael Shanks), can't help himself from stealing a rare snake that's been kept in a jar by a Native American snake dealer (Ben Cardinal), and which has to follow some ...
Style: natural horror, captivating, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: giant snake, monster, creature feature, snake, animal attack, killer animal, eaten alive, creature, giant monster, shark, dangerous animal, paranoia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Creature Below (2016)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.
Style: bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: creature, creature feature, murder, nightmare, sibling relationship, marine biologist, diving, eaten alive, insanity, monster, cosmic horror, medical ...
Place: atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.6
 4K
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 ⇓
50%
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Piranha (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, rough ...
Plot: piranha, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, summer camp, deadly creature, danger, mutant, gory, chaos, creature feature, killer animal, animal attack ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 21K
Rabid (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: vampire, body horror, epidemic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hospital, virus, zombie, violence, insanity, cannibalism, infected, infection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: montreal, canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.6
 5K
Decoys (2004)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren't exactly...human.
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: female alien, space and aliens, college, dangerous attraction, dark humor, alien invasion, supernatural, impossible love, alien encounter, dying during sex, winter, alien ...
Time: 2000s
Place: canada
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50%
 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 ⇓
50%
 5.8
 3K
Venom (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couples child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London ...
Style: natural horror, slasher, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, creature feature, killer snake, animal attack, terrorism, killer animal, creature, dangerous animal, nature, kaiju, environmental, cannon ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 4.4
 699
Sting of Death (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mutant jellyfish stalks biology students in the Florida everglades.
Style: suspense, natural horror, sexy, independent film, psychotronic ...
Plot: monster, creature, water monster, underwater, animal attack, female nudity, swimming pool, jellyfish, sinking boat, experiment, scuba diving, kaiju ...
Place: everglades
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
50%
 3.4
 909
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 ⇓
50%
 5.2
 3K
The Brain (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The ...
Style: christmas horror, scary, independent film, cult horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, hallucination, alien, high school, monster, eaten alive, body horror, christmas, decapitation, car crash, chainsaw, murder ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.8
 101K
Splice (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, twist ending, twisted ...
Audience: adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, genetic engineering, genetics, cloning, experiment, danger, creature, experiment gone awry, laboratory, imaginary, dna ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.6
 1K
Aberration (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A nature field researcher is investigating the strange extinction of small animals and insects in the area, which indicates that something is wrong. His suspicions are soon to be proven right when he meets May, who lives in a cabin in the forest ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Plot: mutant, lizard, danger, supernatural, dangerous animal, extinction, woods, on the run, woman in danger, evolution, snow, creature feature ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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