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Growth (2010)
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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 - something in the experiment went horribly wrong, and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
Plot: parasite, island, survival, experiment gone awry, quarantine, danger, deadly creature, creature feature, human experiment, virus, infection, creature, redneck, zombie, monster, ufo, alien invasion, pandemic, disease, eye, infected, zombie attack, dystopia, tiny, experiment ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: outburst

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and rough films with plots about deadly, danger, supernatural, escapades, gory, survival and zombie mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Growth: The Thaw (2009), Scourge (2008), Dead Season (2012), They Nest (2000), The Blackout (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
75%
 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%
 4.6
 3K
Dead Season (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie, plague, apocalypse, on the run, survival, cannibalism, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, social decay, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 2K
They Nest (2000)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: insect, cockroach, mad scientist, rescue, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, experiment gone awry, family in danger, isolation, island, doctor ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england, boston, atlantic ocean, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 3.3
 2K
The Blackout (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve, the city goes dark, and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, survival, deadly creature, isolation, monster, christmas, invasion, danger, confined, supernatural, creature feature, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
47%
 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 ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
42%
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Beyond Atlantis (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
Style: psychotronic, art house, psychological, independent film, exciting ...
Plot: underwater, diving, scuba diving, monster, relic hunter, exploitation, breeding, kidnapping, piranha, lost civilization, heist, imaginary kingdom ...
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 773
Zombie Town (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Local mechanic Jake LaFond's life is suddenly disrupted when mysterious parasites transform the law-abiding citizens of his quaint hometown into hoards of cannibalistic zombies. Isolated from the outside world by an accident on the only road ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, suspense
Plot: zombie, plague, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, violence spree, experiment gone awry, isolation, disorder, toxic, mad scientist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 2.9
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Virus X (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A thriller about a case of highly contagious swine flu virus engineered by rogue scientists. A cover up by a mysterious dark lady linked to the High Spheres adds action and mystery.
Style: bleak, serious, scary, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: quarantine, epidemic, mad scientist, doctors and patients, danger, psychopath, surveillance, virus, zombie, deadly virus, sex, dystopia ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, zombie, living dead, chaos, danger, deadly creature, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, plague, dystopian future, survival, race against time ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
State of Emergency (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, plague, chaos, quarantine, isolation, danger, small town, infection, virus, infected, monster, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Warriors of Terra (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A headstrong animal-rights activist group plans a raid on a bio-tech company to stop the cruelty. They...
Style: serious, scary, suspense, captivating
Plot: survival, experiment gone awry, genetic engineering, mutant, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, confined, laboratory, breaking and entering, father daughter relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.3
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Unseen Evil (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, survival, crime gone awry, danger, escapades, rivalry, betrayal, gory, alien, monster, native ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.8
 2K
The Demented (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Six college friends unite for a weekend getaway where they find themselves fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack turns the local residents into rage infused zombies.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, infection, survival, bio weapon, isolation, chaos, friends, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, small town, virus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 2.8
 1K
Zombie Wars (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as ...
Style: bleak, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: zombie, soldier, survival horror, chaos, supernatural, survival, danger, gory, blood, zombie apocalypse, infected, farm ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Night Shadows (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, mutant, small town, zombie, survival, chaos, danger, experiment gone awry, infection, plague, undead, virus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
28%
 2.7
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Infected (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A blood virus infects a small group of hunters turning a father and son trip into a fight for survival.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot: infection, zombie, zombie apocalypse, disease, danger, supernatural, chaos, gory, wilderness, chase, escapades, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.4
 1K
Watchers II (1990)
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, cybernetics, alien monster, experiment gone awry, nudity, violent content, gory, imaginary ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
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27%
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 4.5
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13 Eerie (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Six ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknownst to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, isolation, survival, experiment, supernatural, danger, gory, confined, island, left to die, eaten alive, student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: infection, virus, laboratory, pandemic, quarantine, murder, survival, death, body horror, contamination, danger, plague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: fictional island, caribbean
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26%
Days of Darkness (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary, apocalyptic ...
Plot: plague, survival, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, rescue, chaos, gory, zombie, post apocalypse, epidemic, living dead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Prometheus Project (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Plot: zombie, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, danger, mad scientist, laboratory, supernatural, gory, captivity, frankenstein's monster, hospital, frankenstein ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.3
 2K
Dark Island (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong. But when they arrive, the team quickly discovers that the weapons testing performed on the ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: bio weapon, experiment gone awry, survival, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, disorder, scientist, virus, jungle, pandemic, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Psychic Experiment (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, chaos, small town, supernatural, small community, dark secret, under the surface, survival, violent content, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.0
 996
Brain of Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, psychological, serious ...
Plot: mad scientist, acid, body horror, monster, creature feature, macabre, cognitive science, exploitation, paranormal, brain transplant, voyeur, danger ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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