Movies like Watchers 1988
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Watchers (1988)
5K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious, teen horror, perverse, cult classic, classic horror, psychological thriller, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature, creature feature, genetic mutation, laboratory, dog, survival, experiment gone awry, boy dog relationship, genetic engineering, government agent, mad scientist, danger, on the run, stalking, heroes, supernatural ability, teenage boy, child in peril, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, monster, teenager, violence, death, murder, brutality ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe, big ben london
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100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
future, prehistory, 80s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India, Australia, Brazil, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other ...
Style:
exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, alien monster, predator, hunter, extraterrestrial, alien creature, warrior, female warrior, soldier, monster, child, mission ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
xian, georgia, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
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:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
Style:
dark, classic horror, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dog, monster, creature, creature feature, alien, alien monster, cybernetics, experiment gone awry, gory, danger, imaginary, escapades ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, experiment gone awry, danger, supernatural ability, government agency, body horror, secret past, monster, burned alive, conspiracy, exploitation, scientist ...
Time:
90s, 50s, 80s, 20th century, year 1955 ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
brutality, quarantine, chase, survival, virus, race against time, catastrophe, ghetto, violence, female police officer, urban decay, massacre ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, mad scientist, tyrannosaurus rex, creature feature, virus, genetics, danger, creature, kaiju, deadly creature, chaos, imaginary ...
Time:
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Place:
nevada, washington d.c.
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, father daughter relationship, evil child, mind control, pyrokinesis, on the run ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, vermont
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
Style:
slasher, medical horror, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, serial killer, murder, psycho killer, female nudity, monster, chase, mad scientist, survival, hospital, small town, home invasion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style:
suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
experiment gone awry, deadly creature, evil alien, space and aliens, rivalry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, gory, race against time, mad scientist, danger ...
Similarity:
39%
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
future, year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, year 2004 ...
Place:
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38%
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Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A reboot of the "Resident Evil" franchise. Set in 1998, the intention is to re-create the 'terrifying visceral experience' of the first two games in the series, exploring 'the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, paranoia, evil alien, woods, extraterrestrial, macabre, ufo, scarecrow, space and aliens, alien encounter, flying saucer ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style:
scary, medical horror, suspenseful, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, genetics, mutant, island, survival, chaos and mayhem, experiment gone awry, mutation, dangerous animal, stranded, brutality, experiment ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, indonesia, pacific ocean
Similarity:
37%
631
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community. It's up to the easygoing Sheriff Parker, eager game warden Jim, ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
werewolf, monster, small town, danger, deadly creature, disorder, experiment gone awry, killer animal, laboratory, scientist, violence, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
future, year 2001, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
labor day
Place:
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Similarity:
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30K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A single father and two women venture from the safety of their homes to face monstrous creatures to save the life of a young boy.
Style:
twisted, road movie, suspenseful
Plot:
mountain, alien, hospital, forest, creature, creature feature, abandoned mine, mine, monster, alien invasion, drinking, horse ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
Style:
scary, stylized, suspense, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, virus, apocalypse, infection, quarantine, small town, epidemic, brutality, survival horror, eaten alive, transformation, soldier ...
Time:
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Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob ...
Style:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one woman army, female warrior, conspiracy, danger, assassination, murder, hitman, vengeance, army investigation, undercover, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time:
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Similarity:
36%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, conspiracy, government agency, vengeance, telekinesis, chase, secret government organization, family relations, rescue, visceral, government agent, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, middle east
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, fast
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
experiment gone awry, supernatural, government agency, deadly creature, save the world, survival, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, special agent, chase ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After the mysterious death of scientist, Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who revealed that a veteran soldier was subjected to an experiment with the objective of creating the ...
Style:
detective, suspense, surprise ending, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
invisibility, invisible man, psychopath, serial killer, manhunt, voyeurism, chase, assassin, violence, murder, mad scientist, superhuman powers ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, pentagon
Similarity:
35%
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, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, romania
Similarity:
34%
49K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the ...
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
evil alien, cloning, terrorism, mad scientist, chaos, alien encounter, deadly creature, supernatural ability, supernatural, disorder, laboratory, military life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, alaska
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle Eastern desert. Evil that is not of this world. Evil that should never be unearthed.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, desert, soldier, danger, daring rescue, survival, deadly creature, heroes, heroic mission, escapades, experiment gone awry, computer cracker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, cuba
Similarity:
34%
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