Movies like The Thaw 2009

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The Thaw (2009)
 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 unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, dark, underground film, splatter, natural horror, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, quarantine, plague, expedition, infected, deadly creature, scientist, beast, disaster, danger, epidemic, infection, isolation, virus, winter, body horror, global warming, creature, creature feature, snow, monster, disease, dystopia, heroes, politics ...
Time: prehistory, 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

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Most similar movies to The Thaw

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about creature feature, deadly, danger, supernatural, monster, escapades and creature mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Thaw: The Bay (2012), The Thing (2011), Blood Glacier (2013), The Thing (1982), Harbinger Down (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.7
 29K
The Bay (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: infection, parasite, found footage, disaster, virus, plague, disease, ecological disaster, apocalypse, infected, danger, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 145K
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 ⇓
75%
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 — 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 ⇓
100%
 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 ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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 ⇓
100%
 4.4
 4K
Growth (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1989, a breakthrough in "advanced parasitic research" on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising, as subjects experienced heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But - ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic ...
Plot: parasite, island, survival, experiment gone awry, danger, deadly creature, quarantine, creature feature, human experiment, infection, virus, creature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 3.8
 1K
Dead Shadows (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: survival, supernatural, danger, chaos, mutant, creature, post apocalypse, zombie, post apocalyptic, paranormal, virus, alien ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.5
 4K
Stranded (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, trapped in space, space, supernatural, isolation, danger, alien encounter, space exploration, trapped, alien, fear, paranoia ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.2
 1K
Scourge (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
Plot: parasite, survival, violence spree, supernatural, danger, small town, deadly creature, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, small town life, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 3K
Kaw (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: bird attack, bird, small town, curse, diner, danger, misfit, deadly creature, gory, isolation, social relations, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 8K
Isolation (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, infection, creature feature, farm, quarantine, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, race against time, danger, escapades, genetic engineering ...
Place: ireland, europe
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67%
 4.0
 3K
Parasite (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, alien, bio weapon, danger ...
Time: future, year 1982, year 1992, 90s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
100%
Spider in the Attic (2021)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A deadly nest of spiders lurk in the attic - And the nest is about to be awoken by a news reporter and her colleagues
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating
Plot: giant spider, monster, alien life-form, scientist, experiment, reporter, female reporter, evil, beast, attic, spider, creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 1K
Larva (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parasite, deadly creature, survival, disorder, chaos, supernatural, danger, plague, dangerous animal, society, small town, experiment gone awry ...
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary ...
Plot: found footage, infection, zombie, survival, dystopian future, deadly creature, rescue, experiment gone awry, danger, chaos and mayhem, gory, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: united kingdom, england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mulberry Street (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, infection, rat, dangerous animal, survival, apocalypse, supernatural, save the world, plague, virus, epidemic, danger ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style: scary, splatter, slasher, mockumentary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: infected, virus, zombie, infection, quarantine, plague, stewardess, zombification, airport, chaos and mayhem, heroes, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, creature feature, psychopath, danger, mind game, serial killer, plague, race against time, investigation ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
19%
 3.6
 4K
Carnosaur (1993)
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, virus, creature feature, danger, genetics, creature, kaiju, chaos, deadly creature, tyrannosaurus rex, disorder ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: nevada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.7
 948
The Dark (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, survival, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, tunnel, special agent, supernatural, danger, creature feature, scientist, monster, law enforcer ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 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 ⇓
18%
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 6.5
 35K
Pontypool (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, epidemic, deadly virus, virus, radio station, survival, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, radio, infection, small town, fear ...
Time: year 2008, distant future
Place: ontario canada
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18%
 3.4
 798
They Crawl (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 292K
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, post apocalypse, infection, chaos, gory ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Terror Within (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: raped by monster, apocalypse, survival, mutant, monster, desert, isolation, space and aliens, rescue, plague, battles, deadly creature ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 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 ⇓
18%
 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 ⇓
18%
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the ...
Style: scary, suspense, tense, enigmatic, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blindness, creature feature, post apocalyptic, monster, space and aliens, mutant, distopia, survival, post apocalypse, humanity, save the world, rescue ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, england, united kingdom, london, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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