Movies like Carny 2009
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Carny (2009)
1K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast escapes, tearing the citizens to shreds, local sheriff Sam Atlas steps up to form a tracking team. But the carnivorous fugitive is only one of Sam’s problems. The local pastor, enraged by the death of his son at the hands of the beast, has plans for igniting his own brand of hellfire and revenge.
Style:
exciting, scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, mythical, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
carnival, supernatural, legends and myths, danger, chaos and mayhem, creature feature, gory, escapades, small town, clergy, creature, ogre, sheriff, monster, killer animal, devil, giant monster, animal attack, freak, amusement park, cryptozoology, giant animal, countryside, disorder, crime gone awry ...
Place:
usa, nebraska
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Most similar movies to Carny
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense and scary films with plots about creature feature, danger, animal horror, monster, killer animal, deadly and creature mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Carny: Roadkill (2011), Sea Beast (2008), Beyond Loch Ness (2008), Beneath Loch Ness (2001), Bats (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, natural horror ...
Plot:
killer animal, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, friends, accident, giant bird, redneck, brutality, creature, terror, ogre, curse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the fishing village of Cedar Bay, terror lies within the water. And now it has surfaced in search of something more substantial to devour than marine life: human flesh. A captain and a sea biologist must wage a terrifying battle against the ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary ...
Plot:
fishing boat, creature feature, sea monster, monster, creature, survival, deadly creature, imaginary, danger, supernatural, rescue, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary, mythical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dangerous animal, sea monster, killer animal, lost world, loch ness monster, creature feature, abandoned mine, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, gory ...
Time:
jurassic, 2000s, year 1976
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks ...
Style:
dark, scary, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loch ness monster, dangerous animal, deadly creature, supernatural, obsessive quest, chaos and mayhem, young heroes, mad scientist, legends and myths, creature, monster, violence ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
europe, scotland
Similarity:
100%
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12K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Style:
scary, intense, rough, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
bat, disaster, animal attack, mad scientist, small town, supernatural, creature feature, monster, dangerous animal, mutation, danger, save the day ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
Style:
gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, church, ancient mystery, danger, curses spells and rituals, monster, imaginary, deadly creature, escapades, creature feature, creature, giant monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
SWAMP DEVIL is the story of young Melanie Blaime (played by Cindy Sampson) and her father Howard (portrayed by the venerable Bruce Dern). After a long estrangement from her father for reasons not entirely clear, Melanie returns to her childhood home ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
monster, swamp, swamp monster, murder, small town, supernatural, dangerous animal, danger, vengeance, mutant, family life, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
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:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
creature, supernatural, rescue, danger, heroic mission, dog, escapades, battles, greek mythology, giant monster, creature feature, monster ...
Place:
ancient greece, greece
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The residents of a small Alaskan town find themselves under attack by a flying reptile known in medieval mythology as a Wyvern. It has thawed from its ancient slumber by melting icecaps caused by global warming.
Style:
bleak, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dragon, global warming, heroes, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, legends and myths, creature, killer animal, monster, imaginary, chaos ...
Place:
usa, alaska
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a dismembered body is found in the Appalachian Mountains, a county Sheriff is shocked to discover that the predator is a six-hundred pound Bengal tiger.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, disturbing
Plot:
tiger, dangerous animal, animal attack, small town, killer animal, creature feature, survival, danger, escapades, animal life, ogre, monster ...
Time:
jurassic
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious
Plot:
priest, deadly creature, survival, society, danger, clergy, supernatural, environmentalism, supernatural ability, killer animal, monster, slime ...
Similarity:
34%
967
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
survival, military, daring rescue, danger, monster, animal attack, reptiles, killer animal, creature, soldier, violent content, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
33%
781
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
giant spider, parallel world, survival, experiment gone awry, supernatural, dangerous animal, chaos, heroic mission, deadly creature, escapades, rivalry, rescue ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
33%
2K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious ...
Plot:
ogre, curse, small town, deadly creature, supernatural, isolation, supernatural ability, escapades, curses spells and rituals, urban legend, monster, save the day ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This menacing monster yarn stars James Van Der Beek as government scientist Dan Leland, who's sent to investigate reported sightings of a giant squidlike beast that's put the entire population of a fishing village on edge. Though Leland ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
giant squid, sea monster, fishing boat, creature feature, squid, obsessive quest, deadly creature, marine biologist, supernatural, danger, escapades, small town ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
experiment gone awry, killer animal, mad scientist, danger, survival, bio weapon, deadly creature, investigation, escapades, graphic violence, violent content, insect ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The concept is based on a true story concerning an exotic species of eels that are released in the southeast from Asia. They breathe air and can survive on land.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Plot:
eel, killer animal, dangerous animal, mad scientist, survival, creature feature, danger, experiment gone awry, wilderness, creature, monster, shark ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, everglades
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dinosaur, survival, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, escapades, heroic mission, save the day, small town, danger, giant monster, monster, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
791
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's an experiment in human behavior. It's an exploration of the most natural of animal impulses. It's something new under the moon. And it bites. When security dispatcher Aaron Scates is blinded in an explosion, he's put in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
wolfman, wolf, organ transplant, werewolf, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, supernatural, race against time, danger, deadly creature, gory, doctors and patients ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet. When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, mysterious, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
giant monster, creature, dangerous animal, mountain, scientist, danger, escapades, monster, geologist, creature feature, giant creature, ogre ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A team of soldiers must stop a giant, bloodthirsty crocodile from reaching a nearby city, while trying to avoid being a meal for the beast themselves.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
race against time, soldier, city, save the day, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, escapades, military, monster, eye, creature feature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer animal, monster, creature feature, isolation, survival, supernatural, escapades, chaos, disorder, animal life, small town life, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
jurassic
Place:
maryland
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious ...
Plot:
gargoyle, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, church, priest, danger, imaginary, deadly creature, special agent, gory, escapades, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, romania, bucharest
Similarity:
31%
898
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three metre long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot:
monster, insect, creature, dangerous animal, danger, race against time, deadly creature, chaos, special agent, swat, killer animal, violence ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
sea monster, treasure hunt, giant squid, creature feature, danger, escapades, adventurer, survival, vengeance, creature, deadly creature, animal attack ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
3K
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:
rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
bird attack, bird, small town, raven, corpse, diner, danger, misfit, amish, curse, deadly creature, social relations ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
chimpanzee, creature feature, anthropology, survival, isolation, dangerous animal, wilderness, captivity, danger, escapades, killer animal, monkey ...
Time:
jurassic
Place:
asia, africa, australia, thailand
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, natural horror ...
Plot:
abandoned mine, survival, creature feature, mutant, chaos, danger, creature, killer animal, animal attack, ogre, giant monster, monster ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
middle east, afghanistan
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Indonesia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of ...
Style:
mysterious, serious, scary, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, prehistoric creature, creature feature, killer animal, prehistoric animal, danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, escapades, ocean, giant creature, scorpion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, indonesia
Similarity:
30%
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