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Altered Species (2001)
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Altered Species (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Altered Species is a 2001 horror film, about a scientist who has found a way to regenerate damaged tissue in the body. He has tried his experiment on rats, but the effects are disastrous. One of them grows to 50 times its normal size, and attempts to destroy the laboratory.
Style: natural horror
Plot: giant animal, rat, professor, laboratory, killer animal, creature feature, insect, animal attack, creature, cat, youth, moon, blood, basement, cell, van, decapitation, electrocution, gas mask, animal horror, hypodermic needle, flask, severed arm, shovel, knocked unconscious ...
Keyword: sink

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out natural horror, suspenseful, scary and psychotronic films with plots about animal horror, killer animal, creature feature, animal attack, monster, creature and insect mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Altered Species: The Bees (1978), Deadly Eyes (1982), Dogs (1977), Killer Rats (2003), Mimic 2 (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Bees (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent ...
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, cult horror, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: killer animal, animal attack, disaster, insect, killer bee, laboratory, paranormal, exploitation, tiny, bee, beach, invasion ...
Time: year 1978
Place: usa, latin america, brazil
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95%
 4.9
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Deadly Eyes (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious ...
Style: suspense, tense, rough, natural horror, bleak ...
Plot: rat, mutant, subway, cheerleader, canuxploitation, professor, city, rodent, giant monster, student athlete, virus, exploitation ...
Time: year 1982
Place: canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
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71%
 4.8
 1K
Dogs (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pack of domesticated dogs go on a killing spree in southern California.
Style: scary, natural horror, independent film
Plot: animal attack, killer animal, dog, killer dog, exploitation, paranormal, disaster, deadly creature, dog attack, killing, blood, scientist ...
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69%
 3.4
 1K
Killer Rats (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, survival, dangerous animal, supernatural, danger, gory, creature feature, killer animal, animal, scared, eye, end of the world ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 4.5
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Mimic 2 (2001)
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, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, mutant, creature, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, insect, mutation, creature feature, rescue, good versus evil, survival ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 ⇓
63%
Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, loose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicous about the rough treatment and injections given by ship's ...
Style: suspense, fast, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: giant spider, creature feature, monster, boat, ship, insect, animal attack, kaiju, killer animal, spider, disaster, giant monster ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Panic in the tower (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: animal experimentation, medical school, laboratory, scientist, animal attack, mutant, danger, isolation, captivity, monster, monkey, killer animal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Swarmed (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.
Style: natural horror, disturbing, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: creature feature, monster, animal attack, survival horror, killer animal, insect, dangerous animal, giant animal, human versus monster, struggle for survival, monster terrorizes city, human versus animal ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Savage Bees (1976)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Style: natural horror, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: disaster, mardi gras, insect, killer animal, monster, animal attack, pandemic, trapped, festival, bee, killer bee, automobile ...
Time: 70s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Spiders (2000)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: giant spider, mutant, creature feature, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, danger, space and aliens, journalism, desert, monster, killer animal, news reporter ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, heroes, good versus evil, laboratory, disorder, spider, monster ...
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56%
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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
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55%
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Alligator (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Style: scary, stylized, suspense, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, sewer, mutation, scientist, hunter, creature feature, urban legend, monster, toxic, animal attack, giant animal, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Ticks (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
Style: scary, tense, semi serious, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mutant, monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, giant insect, creature, wilderness, buddies, youth, danger, drug abuse, animal attack ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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53%
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.
Style: natural horror, dark, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: insect, animal attack, killer bee, home invasion, killer animal, eye, countryside, isolation, disorder, animal life, confined, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Rats (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, rat, subway, gory, deadly creature, danger, escapades, hospital, isolation, killer animal, urban ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Tail Sting (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A pack of massive genetically altered Scorpions escape containment on an airplane, turning passengers into victims and forcing one ordinary woman to confront her worst fears.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: creature feature, giant insect, murder, scientist, genetics, scorpion, killer animal, airplane, creature, aviation, disaster, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Skeeter (1993)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!
Style: natural horror, retro, cult classic, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, insect, killer animal, monster, small town, motorcycle, sheriff, death, exploitation, animal attack, creature, toxic ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Night of the Lepus (1972)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, absurd ...
Plot: giant animal, mutation, monster, gene manipulation, creature feature, experiment gone awry, giant monster, chaos, dangerous animal, mad scientist, danger, heroes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Beaks: The Movie (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds ...
Style: natural horror, funny, mexploitation
Plot: bird attack, killer animal, creature feature, animal attack, bird, reporter, deadly creature, boat, insect, bare chested male, bare breasts, train ...
Place: mexico, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Sabertooth (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, disturbing ...
Plot: dangerous animal, animal attack, experiment gone awry, killer animal, science runs amok, creature feature, tiger, animal experimentation, danger, gory, killed by an animal, brutality ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Island Claws (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Audience: adult
Plot: monster, creature, animal attack, creature feature, giant monster, kaiju, island, crab, toxic waste, giant animal, sea monster, giant crab ...
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Day of the Animals (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, scary, natural horror, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wilderness, dog, camping, animal attack, bear, creature feature, snake, hawk, wolf attack, killed by a dog, attempted rape, survival ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 3K
Uninvited (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
Style: retro, classic horror, natural horror, slasher, independent film ...
Plot: yacht, creature feature, criminal, money, mutant animal, animal attack, cat, monster, tiny, ailurophobia, american horror, creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Strays (1991)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Family moves into new home and is attacked by stray cats.
Style: suspense, dark, natural horror
Plot: animal attack, killer animal, dog, exploitation, ailurophobia, killing, new house, house, creature feature, family relations, cat, animal horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Killer Bees (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
Style: natural horror, psychotronic
Plot: animal attack, killer animal, insect, killer bee, tiny, hagsploitation, vineyard, matriarchy, creature feature, power, bee, animal ...
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43%
 4.1
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Dogs of Hell (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pack of Rottweilers, bred and trained by the U.S. military to kill humans, escape to ravage the peaceful mountain resort town of Lake Lure. It is up to the local sheriff to protect his small community.
Style: natural horror, detective, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: dog, killer dog, animal attack, monster, killer animal, exploitation, deadly creature, peace, escape, hunting, blood, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 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 ⇓
41%
Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake...
Style: detective, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, creature feature, animal attack, killer animal, crocodile, eaten alive, panic, giant animal, toxic waste, sewer, monster, urban legend ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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