Movies like The Thaw
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The Thaw (2009)
14K
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:
suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, suspense, natural horror, dark, underground film, splatter, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parasite, quarantine, scientist, deadly creature, expedition, infected, disaster, danger, plague, epidemic, infection, isolation, virus, winter, body horror, creature, creature feature, snow, monster, disease, dystopia, global warming, heroes, politics, captivity ...
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 deadly, danger, creature feature, monster, supernatural, creature and survival mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Thaw: The Bay (2012), Blood Glacier (2013), The Thing (2011), The Thing (1982), Mimic: Sentinel (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
32K
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:
mockumentary, frightening, suspenseful, horrifying, medical horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parasite, infection, found footage, disaster, water, virus, ecological disaster, disease, plague, infected, epidemic, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, california
Similarity:
100%
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, deadly creature, scientist, creature feature, mountain, survival, danger, isolation, supernatural, insect, dog, snow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alps, austria, germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
154K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
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, gory, alien, deadly creature, alien invasion, blood, evil alien, body horror, survival horror, chase, survival, alien encounter ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2011, future, year 1982 ...
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
75%
520K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
antarctica, antarctic, south pole
Similarity:
67%
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, monster, creature feature, psychopath, mind game, danger, serial killer, plague, drug dealing ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A nasty virus has spread throughout the human race turning the population into something ...else. After a brief setup (and a messy hit and run) we’re introduced to an ambulance and its four occupants. Sonia (Helene de Fougerolles) and Marco ...
Style:
scary, bleak, tense, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutation, mutant, infection, survival, deadly virus, supernatural, danger, love and romance, life is a bitch, isolation, lovers on the run, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, slasher, splatter, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, zombie, quarantine, plague, virus, infection, zombification, confinement indoors, stewardess, airport, chaos and mayhem, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
trapped in space, survival, space, isolation, supernatural, alien encounter, danger, alien, space exploration, trapped, fear, paranoia ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, rough, scary, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
human experiment, parasite, island, survival, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, danger, quarantine, eye, creature feature, creature, infection ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
71%
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, creature, post apocalypse, zombie, comet, apocalypse, alien, virus, paranormal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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, nautical ...
Plot:
creature, infection, creature feature, ship, alien abduction, alien, winter, fishing boat, monster, body horror, sea, military ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
100%
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:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, offbeat
Plot:
parasite, survival, danger, supernatural, violence spree, small town, deadly creature, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, gory, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Style:
tense, serious, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
epidemic, virus, heroic mission, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, experiment gone awry, plague, chaos, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Place:
angola, usa, virginia
Similarity:
100%
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, medical horror, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, bio weapon, danger, plague ...
Time:
future, year 1992, year 1982, 90s, near future ...
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
390K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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:
psychedelic, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, medical horror ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, cosmic horror, dna, creature, mutation, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist, expedition, research, genetics, terror ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, arkansas, maine, england, louisiana ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
creepy, suspenseful, tense, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
giant spider, attic, spider, scientist, experiment, alien life-form, fear, female reporter, beast, reporter, evil, creature feature ...
Similarity:
100%
1K
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:
deadly creature, parasite, survival, disorder, chaos, danger, plague, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, small town, monster, creature ...
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
27%
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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:
90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
nevada, washington d.c.
Similarity:
26%
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, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, scary ...
Plot:
infection, found footage, zombie, survival, dystopian future, chaos and mayhem, gory, danger, deadly creature, rescue, on the run, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
united kingdom, europe, london, england
Similarity:
26%
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, supernatural, danger, swat, body horror, transformation, virus, escaped prisoner, creature feature, genetic engineering ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
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, supernatural, plague, eaten alive, virus, epidemic, danger, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
25%
38K
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, tense, suspenseful, creepy, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, deadly virus, virus, epidemic, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, radio, infection, small town, survival, insanity, fear ...
Time:
year 2008, distant future
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
50%
992
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, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, survival, tunnel, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, special agent, danger, supernatural, creature feature, scientist, diner, exploitation ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
25%
59K
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, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, giant insect, disease, tunnel, eaten alive, entomologist, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, epidemic ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
apocalypse, monster, isolation, space and aliens, rescue, plague, battles, deadly creature, danger, pregnancy, life is a bitch, creature ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
25%
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, mutant, island, killer animal, experiment, creature, scientist, monster, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 99 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, suspense, rough, tense, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, infection, post apocalypse, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, france ...
Similarity:
24%
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:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, experiment gone awry, danger, plague, supernatural, rivalry, deadly creature, murder, monster, creature feature, insect, creature ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a species of "Judas" bugs and introduced them into the ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, cult horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, giant insect, creature, insect, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, mutation, creature feature, good versus evil, rescue, survival ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
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