Movies like The Crawlers

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The Crawlers (1990)
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The Crawlers (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: People from a small town are attacked by evil radioactive tree roots growing in the forest.
Style: natural horror, funny, cult classic, splatter, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Plot: monster, creature, exploitation, creature feature, virus, pandemic, dog, high school sweetheart, killer animal, violence, blonde, death, murder, car chase, old man, bartender, sheriff, evil, darkness, brother sister relationship, blood, cigarette smoking, cruiser, small town, wilderness ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Keyword: italian horror

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Most similar movies to The Crawlers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychotronic, scary and suspenseful films with plots about creature feature, monster, creature, exploitation, gore, killer animal and death mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Crawlers: Phantoms (1998), Splinter (2008), Without Warning (1980), The Milpitas Monster (1976), Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
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100%
 6.1
 41K
Splinter (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, zombie, infection, infected, macabre, monster, virus, parasite, death, body horror, supernatural, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Without Warning (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An alien creature stalks human prey.
Style: slasher, classic horror, grindhouse, gothic horror, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: evil alien, creature feature, monster, alien invasion, alien, paranoia, creature, wilderness, forest, predator, prey, exploitation ...
Time: year 1980, 1940s, 70s
Place: california, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Milpitas Monster (1976)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A monster created from a garbage dump; local pollution terrorizes a town
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: kaiju, monster, giant monster, creature, creature feature, exploitation, town, transformers, contamination, small town, mutant, party ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Style: scary, slasher, natural horror, perverse, spoof ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, shark, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, fish, underwater, scuba diving, sea, gory, island ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.3
 1K
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 ⇓
24%
 4.4
 2K
The Being (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
Style: slasher, retro, cult classic, cult horror, psychotronic ...
Plot: monster, toxic waste, exploitation, holiday horror, creature, creature feature, mutant, paranormal, disfigurement, revenge, small town, police ...
Time: year 1983
Place: idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 2.8
 643
The Mutation (2021)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mutated rat has been let loose in a city.
Style: psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspense
Plot: monster, rat, creature, mutant animal, mad scientist, zoologist, creature feature, violence, killings, supernatural power, hunting, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 5.5
 6K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Killer Crocodile (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.
Style: natural horror, suspense, independent film, wild
Plot: crocodile, monster, killer animal, creature feature, animal attack, killer crocodile, alligator, creature, reptiles, prehistoric creature, exploitation, shark ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo. Enveloped by a radioactive mass, a rabid weasel is transformed into a gigantic killer mutant. Prowling the countryside, the huge ...
Style: psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, detective, weird
Plot: monster, mad scientist, creature feature, killer animal, exploitation, murder, shark, violence, bicycle, dead children, camp, mutation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style: suspense, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie attack, gory, virus, end of the world, violence, cannibalism, post apocalyptic, zombie outbreak ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 1995, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.6
 43K
The Blob (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher ...
Plot: rat, post apocalypse, dangerous animal, mutant, survival, danger, deadly creature, survival horror, save the world, chaos, gory, laboratory ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, gory, female nudity, virus, pandemic, zombie violence, danger, living dead, race against time, survival, zombie child ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: papua new guinea, barcelona, europe, italy, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 360
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 ⇓
21%
 5.9
 24K
Piranha (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Style: natural horror, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: piranha, killer fish, killer animal, fish, summer camp, beach, water, rescue, experiment, resort, race against time, animal attack ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 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 ⇓
20%
 6.1
 51K
Cujo (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style: tense, suspense, scary, natural horror, serious ...
Plot: dog, rabies, dangerous animal, macabre, boy, monster, stephen king, blood, creature feature, brutality, killer dog, survival ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Scared To Death (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the ...
Style: slasher, bloody, independent film, psychotronic, splatter
Plot: creature, monster, serial killer, genetic engineering, fear, exploitation, creature feature, supernatural, paranormal, alien abduction, ex cop, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Silent Predators (1999)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, ...
Style: natural horror, serious, scary, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, creature feature, supernatural, animal attack, killer snake, creature, killer animal, shark, nature, monster, animal life, disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
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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 ⇓
20%
 6.1
 16K
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 ⇓
19%
Jurassic Shark (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of art thieves and a group of college students on an abandoned island
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, natural horror ...
Plot: creature feature, shark, monster, giant monster, killer animal, eaten alive, killer shark, lake, prehistoric animal, survival, characters killed one by one, teenager ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Food of the Gods II (1989)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
Style: natural horror, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Plot: animal attack, giant monster, kaiju, creature feature, body horror, nature, tiny, college, exploitation, insect, monster, giant animal ...
Time: year 1989
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
 5.6
 2K
The Kindred (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, mutant, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, secrets, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.9
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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