Movies like Tremors
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Tremors (1990)
165K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.
Style:
scary, entertaining, horror comedy, black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, splatter ...
Audience:
kids, date night, boys' night, teens, horror for children
Plot:
monster, desert, creature feature, creature, death, survival, small town, deadly creature, danger, giant monster, stranded, rescue, dark humor, mutant, human versus monster, siege, survivalist, transformation, prank, eaten alive, tentacle, friendship, profanity, rock paper scissors, gory ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 1990s
Place:
nevada, usa
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Most similar movies to Tremors
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, humorous, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about monster, creature, danger, deadly, creature feature, survival and mentor mostly in Comedy, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Tremors: Critters (1986), Eight Legged Freaks (2002), Lake Placid (1999), Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Arachnophobia (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style:
scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, small town, creature feature, oil refinery, survival, monster, eaten alive, giant monster, chase, weapons, metamorphosis, stranded ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
mexico, latin america, usa, nevada, california
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Style:
cult classic, horror comedy, cult horror, scary, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
alien, creature, alien invasion, alien monster, small town, eaten alive, space and aliens, evil alien, bounty hunter, ufo, little creatures, camp ...
Time:
80s
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize ...
Style:
horror comedy, humorous, suspense, absurd, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant spider, creature feature, spider, monster, stupidity, dumb, cocoon, lone hero, heroes, mad scientist, killer animal, deadly creature ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, ...
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, natural horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
crocodile, killer animal, dangerous animal, water, gory, rescue, sea monster, eaten alive, swamp, dark humor, escapades, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic
Place:
new york, maine, usa, boston, new england
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Aliens, who look like clowns, arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people in order to use them as sustenance.
Style:
parody, dark comedy, horror comedy, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
clown, killer clown, monster, ufo, alien, extraterrestrial, evil clown, alien abduction, rescue, alien invasion, amusement park, small town ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, Nev., to find that the town of terror has become a theme park, and when the simulated giant worm attacks turn real, the survivalist must battle the creatures once again. Gummer pits his impressive knowledge of ...
Style:
natural horror, scary, humorous, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature, small town, desert, creature feature, eaten alive, chase, giant monster, worm, rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, danger ...
Place:
nevada, usa, argentina
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Venezuela
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from ...
Style:
scary, suspense, horror comedy, natural horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
spider, creature feature, arachnophobia, jungle, killer animal, small town, survival, spider bite, creature, monster, exterminator, insect ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, san francisco, california, south america, venezuela
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Style:
bloody, slasher, splatter, scary, horror comedy ...
Plot:
body horror, siamese twins, macabre, hospital, gory, evil twin, freak, monster, revenge, twins, public nudity, raped by monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This prequel of the bone-chilling Tremors begins in the town of Rejection, Nev., in 1889, where 17 men die under mysterious circumstances. Spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, small town, creature feature, eaten alive, life & death, redemption, chase, human versus monster, giant monster, supernatural, escapades, goofy hero ...
Time:
1880s, future
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the ...
Style:
horror comedy, parody, scary, slapstick comedy, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, horror for children ...
Plot:
monster, creature, mad scientist, skyscraper, gremlin, satire, electrocution, experiment, creature feature, acid, running, laboratory ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
94K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style:
entertaining, scary, horror comedy, spooky, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, parasite, monster, dark humor, small town, zombie, zombie attack, body horror, transformation, creature feature, infection ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tremors: The Series is a television spin-off of the Tremors franchise. Originally airing out of order on the Sci-Fi Channel, it was later aired in its proper sequence on the G4 Network.
Style:
suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, scary, exciting ...
Plot:
desert, deadly creature, escapades, heroic mission, monster, small town, survival, danger, supernatural, rescue, heroes, environmentalism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
nevada, usa
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
Style:
scary, creepy, horrifying, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
monster, gory, siege, escapades, graphic violence, creature feature, blood, absurd violence, deadly creature, cannibalism, impregnation, danger ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
67%
272K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Style:
black comedy, frightening, funny, horror comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, small town, supernatural, transformation, creature, holiday, gremlin, father son relationship, winter, swimming pool, bank ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
57%
51K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style:
grindhouse, humorous, dark comedy, surreal, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, alien invasion, violent, space and aliens, ufo, food, extreme, exploitation, small town, alien, chainsaw, stoned ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place:
new zealand, pacific ocean, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives ...
Style:
scary, spooky, slasher, psychological, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
halloween, werewolf, masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, supernatural horror, halloween party, monster, prank, corpse, holiday horror, scarecrow ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, UK, USA, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Style:
humorous, funny, dark comedy, absurd, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
death, gory, dark humor, vacation, group of friends, student, nothing goes right, accidental killing, youth, chainsaw, friends, freak accident ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
virginia, west virginia, usa, canada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his son Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) find themselves up to their ears in Graboids and Ass-Blasters when they head to Canada to investigate a series of deadly giant-worm attacks. Arriving at a remote research facility ...
Style:
scary, psychotronic, semi serious, humorous, absurd ...
Plot:
creature feature, infection, giant monster, worm, parasite, survival, fantasy world, eaten alive, creature, monster, running for your life, smuggling ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Graboids are illegally taken to a new island resort by a rich playboy as a dangerous form of trophy hunting, and Burt Gummer steps up to save the day.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, humorous, suspenseful, funny ...
Plot:
creature feature, creature, giant monster, survival, deadly creature, friendship, escapades, supernatural, danger, mutant, rescue, animal attack ...
Place:
papua new guinea, pacific ocean
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous ...
Style:
scary, black comedy, parody, cult classic, christmas horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, disaster, zombie, mad scientist, end of the world, survival, radio station, nightmare, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, teenager, dystopia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, gothic, horror comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
werewolf, monster, nightmare, transformation, supernatural, full moon, violence, monster as victim, gory, wolf, ghost, hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, northern england ...
Similarity:
50%
15K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays 18 of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, ...
Style:
cult classic, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, transformation, wax museum, museum, occult, evil dead, characters killed one by one, time travel, female vampire, portal, haunted house, deadly creature ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
75%
176K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, gothic, horror comedy, scary ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
vampire, small town, single mother, supernatural, amusement park, goth, teenage boy, vampire hunter, fear, coming of age, brother brother relationship, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, wisconsin, pacific ocean, georgia ...
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, dark humor, zombie apocalypse, pub, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, satire, zombie violence, eaten alive, supernatural, siege, flesh eating zombie ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe, england
Similarity:
18%
21K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, cult horror, slasher, absurd ...
Plot:
addiction, conspiracy, zombie, satire, small town, consumerism, ghost town, body horror, ice cream, boy, infiltration, supermarket ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
109K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Style:
bloody, dark comedy, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, zombie, dark humor, living dead, infection, eaten alive, terror, monster, supernatural, zombie attack, body horror, macabre ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style:
cult classic, cult horror, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, violence, zombie, dark humor, police, supernatural, parasite, fraternity, macabre, monster, gory, survival ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henelotter up's the ante in the final part of his trilogy by introducing a new member to the family; the potentially monstrous fruit of hideously deformed Belial's loins. With the pair still enjoying relative anonymity and comfort in their ...
Style:
cult classic, horror comedy, dark, slasher, classic horror ...
Plot:
body horror, creature, twins, babies and infants, violence, freak, birth, misfit, little creatures, baby born, creature feature, exploitation ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
Style:
scary, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
shark, killer shark, shark attack, deadly creature, danger, ship, monster, eaten alive, sea monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, South Korea
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines in this rural horror comedy directed by Jonathan King and featuring special effects designed by Weta Workshop.
Style:
dark comedy, scary, funny, horror comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
creature feature, zombie, eaten alive, bestiality, transformation, deadly creature, sheep, genetics, virus, dangerous animal, blood, gory ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Similarity:
67%
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