Movies like The Thing

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The Thing (1982)
 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
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, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense, dark, lovecraft, bloody, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo, scientist, alien life-form, mutation, trapped, survival horror, space and aliens, transformation, alien encounter, evil, alien invasion, gory, danger, research ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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Most similar movies to The Thing

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about creature, monster, supernatural, blood, fear, alien and creature feature mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Thing: Alien (1979), The Fly (1986), Harbinger Down (2015), The Blob (1988), The Void (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.2
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The Thing (2011)
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 ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, gory, alien invasion, deadly creature, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, survival, apocalypse, danger, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 80s, year 1982 ...
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 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 ⇓
90%
 7.6
 200K
The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
90%
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 6.6
 43K
The Blob (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 5.9
 41K
The Void (2016)
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, lovecraft, creepy, stylized, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, hospital, monster, cosmic horror, another dimension, insanity, macabre, murder, mutation, small town, isolation, human experiment ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.6
 251K
Life (2017)
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: suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space travel, space, mars, outer space, monster, alien, space station, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, extraterrestrial life, first contact ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.6
 134K
The Faculty (1998)
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, suspense, suspenseful, teen, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, youth, teenager, parasite, transformation, high school, space and aliens, evil alien, teacher, first contact, alien encounter ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 7.1
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The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, creepy, psychological ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, supernatural, dystopia, female nudity, body horror, end of the world, monster, parasite, evil wins, epidemic, great ending ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.8
 23K
Leviathan (1989)
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, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ship, monster, creature feature, experiment gone awry, race against time, sea, survival, sea monster, ocean, suicide, survival horror, shipwreck ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic ocean, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.4
 22K
Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 8.4
 758K
Aliens (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style: scary, futuristic, suspense, space horror, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, strong female character, space, survival, female warrior, outer space, creature, space and aliens, human versus alien, monster, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1986, 22nd century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.0
 21K
Body Snatchers (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, exciting, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien invasion, evil alien, alien, soldier, toxic, research, zombie, emotionless, invasion, teenage life, military, monster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: alabama, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.1
 112K
Sphere (1998)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style: scary, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: ocean, underwater, alien, paranoia, first contact, psychology, survival, supernatural, space, submarine, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time: future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.8
 357K
Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Color Out of Space (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Malaysia, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land ...
Style: suspense, lovecraft, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mutation, farm, cosmic horror, husband wife relationship, alien invasion, farmhouse, meteorite, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, infected, self mutilation, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: new england, arizona, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 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 ⇓
64%
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Blood Glacier (2013)
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 ā€” with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: mutant animal, dangerous animal, scientist, creature feature, survival, danger, isolation, supernatural, dog, creature, winter, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps, austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.2
 144K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: exciting, allegory, political, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien, alien invasion, distopia, dystopia, mind control, ufo, anti conformity, invasion, evil alien, monster, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.6
 196K
Event Horizon (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
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, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, supernatural, space station, spaceship, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, cosmic horror, hallucination, nightmare, rescue team ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1997, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.1
 41K
Splinter (2008)
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, bloody, psychological, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, zombie, infection, infected, macabre, monster, virus, parasite, death, body horror, supernatural, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.6
 41K
Phantasm (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style: scary, atmospheric, slasher, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum, hearse, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
 159K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
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 ā€“ and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, survival, outer space, isolation, monster, post apocalypse, space, survival horror, spacecraft, memory loss, danger, end of the world ...
Time: future, year 2009
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.8
 451K
Predator (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, survival, jungle, creature, military, hunting, deadly creature, mission, gory, chase, alien invasion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987, future
Place: latin america, south america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 317K
AlienĀ³ (1992)
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, suspense, bad ending ...
Audience: kids
Plot: alien, evil alien, outer space, prison, deadly creature, space travel, survival, human versus alien, cryogenics, monster, creature, alien invasion ...
Time: future, 90s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.0
 641K
Prometheus (2012)
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, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, survival, androids, outer space, robot, space and aliens, distant planet, expedition, alien encounter, spacecraft, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 55K
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%
 7.0
 22K
The Hidden (1987)
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, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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