Movies like The Thing 2011
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The Thing (2011)
136K
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 experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, psychotronic, tense, futuristic, intense, splatter, slasher ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, deadly creature, alien invasion, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, suspense, survival horror, death, space and aliens, survival, snow, alien life-form, transformation, expedition, alien creature, mission gone awry, isolation, supernatural, apocalypse, bodies, paranoia, blizzard, body horror ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1982, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
antarctica
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Most similar movies to The Thing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, cult film and serious films with plots about monster, supernatural, survival, suspense, blood, danger and dialogue mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Thing: Alien (1979), The Void (2016), Species (1995), Prometheus (2012), Predators (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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432K
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, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, survival, isolation, fear, paranoia, creature, supernatural, snow, suspense, scientist, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
antarctica, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
894K
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, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, frightening ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, monster, suspense, space travel, space, female protagonist, space and aliens, deadly creature, fear, creature, spacecraft, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
38K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style:
dark, stylized, surreal, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, monster, hospital, insanity, another dimension, human experiment, cosmic horror, murder, mutation, macabre, cult, small town ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
82K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from ...
Style:
scary, sexy, suspenseful, erotic, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, suspense, genetic engineering, cocoon, monster, deadly creature, genetics, scientist, dna, femme fatale, interspecies sex, cloning ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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617K
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, alien, space travel, distant planet, space, androids, space and aliens, mission, spacecraft, alien life-form, mysterious planet, monster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Prometheus similar movies
235K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they've been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception of a peculiar physician, they are all cold-blooded killers, ...
Style:
scary, intense, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, monster, jungle, predator, space and aliens, evil alien, alien life-form, deadly creature, space, hunting, hi-tech, survival horror ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien ...
Style:
scary, psychological, apocalyptic, slasher, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, supernatural, first contact, virus, supernatural ability, forest, alien encounter, evil alien, apocalypse, transformation, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, boston, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12K
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, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infected, quarantine, parasite, plague, expedition, deadly creature, scientist, beast, disaster, isolation, glacier, winter ...
Time:
prehistory, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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39K
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, psychological, bloody, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature, infected, macabre, infection, monster, zombie, virus, parasite, death, suspense, supernatural, transformation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
53K
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:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, melancholic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, mutant, monster, tunnel, entomologist, suspense, creature, experiment gone awry, disease, giant insect ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Evil Dead
305K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, space, prison, human versus alien, deadly creature, evil alien, space travel, survival, cryogenics, monster, distopia, redemption ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
237K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, evil alien, suspense, macabre, paranoia, forest, ufo, alien encounter, space and aliens, plot twist, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
127K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, splatter, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, suspense, youth, teenager, space and aliens, parasite, evil alien, teacher, alien encounter, high school, high school life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
352K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, suspense, end of the world, post apocalypse, epidemic, blindness, fear, creature, survival horror, suicide, characters murdered one by one, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Thing similar movies
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, exciting, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
suspense, hostage, evil alien, hostage situation, alien, paranormal phenomena, battles, investigation, isolation, captivity, race against time, save the world ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
40K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, intense, bad ending, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cave, survival, diver, monster, deadly creature, supernatural, suspense, parasite, transformation, disaster, creature, diving ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, female nudity, suspense, body swapping, supernatural, apocalypse, macabre, distopia, monster, evil wins, end of the world ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, alien life-form, genetics, husband wife relationship, suspense, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, small town life ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
244K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, tense, harsh, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, creature, suspense, alien life-form, alien, space travel, escape, dark hero, space, deadly creature, space and aliens ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Mist
115K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer ...
Style:
rough, splatter, futuristic, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, mars, deadly creature, zombie, alien, military, creature, virus, suspense, video game, marines, genetics ...
Time:
future, 2040s, jurassic, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
29K
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, suspenseful, exciting, serious, splatter ...
Plot:
monster, supernatural, creature feature, human versus monster, museum, violence, fear, police investigation, superstition, deadly creature, beast, creature ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
chicago illinois, brazil, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, chase, car chase, fbi, buddy cop, suspense, twists and turns, mind control, violence, revenge, monster, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher ...
Plot:
monster, deadly creature, iceberg, mutant animal, scientist, survival, dangerous animal, isolation, supernatural, creature feature, dog, winter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alps, austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
22K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, ship, race against time, survival, experiment gone awry, ocean, suicide, shipwreck, creature feature, sea, disaster, survival horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, conspiracy, alien, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, investigation, suspense, paranoia, disguise, supernatural, space ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cave, survival, deadly creature, sole survivor, supernatural, survival horror, monster, claustrophobia, expedition, suspense, creature, missing person ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
186K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
154K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space, survival, space travel, post apocalypse, isolation, suspense, memory loss, survival horror, spacecraft, mission, end of the world, monster ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspenseful, splatter, bleak ...
Plot:
alien, space travel, space, monster, distopia, space and aliens, evil alien, strong female lead, apocalypse, suspense, robot, creature ...
Time:
future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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