Movies like The Crater Lake Monster

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The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
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The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.
Style: scary, suspense, captivating, disturbing, grindhouse, natural horror, mythical, independent film, offbeat, semi serious ...
Plot: giant monster, dinosaur, monster, meteorite, mutant, dangerous animal, kaiju, supernatural, vengeance, chaos, danger, deadly creature, animal attack, stop motion, creature, reptiles, water, boat, creature feature, revenge, killer animal, invasion, paranormal, prehistoric animal, robbery ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times
Keyword: ocean or sea

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Most similar movies to The Crater Lake Monster

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, natural horror and suspense films with plots about escapades, danger, monster, animal horror, deadly, kaiju and killer animal mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Crater Lake Monster: Beneath Loch Ness (2001), War of the Monsters (1966), Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996), Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010), Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
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: scary, serious, exciting, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loch ness monster, chaos and mayhem, deadly creature, dangerous animal, obsessive quest, supernatural, legends and myths, mad scientist, young heroes, creature, monster, violence ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
War of the Monsters (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal reveals itself to be an egg which spawns Barugon, demon dog from Hell! Armed with a deadly tongue and cold beams, Barugon wreaks havoc on Japan. Gamera comes to ...
Style: daikaiju, suspense, cult classic, classic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, mutant, dam, killer animal, dinosaur, reptiles, prehistoric creature, mothra, turtle ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
Style: natural horror, scary, independent film, serious, rough
Plot: dinosaur, monster, creature feature, kaiju, creature, killer animal, exploitation, giant monster, reptiles, terrorism, tyrannosaurus rex, animal attack ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: giant monster, crocodile, dinosaur, monster, mutant, chaos, battles, escapades, dangerous animal, fight, laboratory, imaginary ...
Time: prehistory, jurassic
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, classic horror ...
Plot: giant monster, kaiju, mutant, chaos, monster, friendship, on the run, heroes, danger, deadly creature, forces of nature, reptile ...
Time: prehistory
Place: korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 2.7
 2K
Poseidon Rex (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles ...
Style: exciting, scary, suspense, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: dinosaur, dangerous animal, lost world, sea monster, deadly creature, danger, escapades, military, mutant, treasure hunt, animal attack, monster ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Raptor Island (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lost world, creature feature, soldier, kaiju, battles, military, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, escapades, rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Triassic Attack (2010)
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: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, fossil, survival, small town, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, save the day, escapades, deadly creature, danger, giant monster, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
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Dinocroc (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, crocodile, killer animal, monster, genetic engineering, creature, experiment gone awry, creature feature, chaos, danger, survival, adventurer ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Gappa the Triphibian Monsters (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the ...
Style: psychotronic, classic horror, retro, grindhouse, daikaiju ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: giant monster, kaiju, dinosaur, island, deadly creature, creature feature, earthquake, tropical island, ship, photographer, killer animal, reptiles ...
Time: prehistory
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 4.2
 2K
Sea Beast (2008)
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, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: sea monster, creature feature, killer animal, monster, fishing boat, creature, survival, imaginary, rescue, supernatural, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.2
 4K
Komodo (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his ...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: dangerous animal, animal attack, creature feature, island, family in danger, monster, giant monster, killer animal, isolation, teenage boy, mutant, creature ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 3.0
 800
Raptor Ranch (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: dinosaur, rescue, survival, dangerous animal, isolation, experiment gone awry, danger, experiment, supernatural, zombie, small town, escapades ...
Time: prehistory
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Wyvern (2009)
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: exciting, bleak, stylized, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dragon, global warming, heroes, creature feature, danger, deadly creature, legends and myths, creature, monster, killer animal, imaginary, chaos ...
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 3.0
 1K
Octopus II (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dead bodies are being found in New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the ...
Style: semi serious, scary, natural horror, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: octopus, giant animal, giant octopus, monster, creature feature, sea monster, animal attack, riddles and clues, danger, dangerous animal, underwater, killer animal ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 3.0
 994
Supergator (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: mutant, dinosaur, alligator, creature feature, crocodile, experiment gone awry, survival, dangerous animal, danger, chaos, laboratory, escapades ...
Time: prehistory, jurassic, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 2.9
 2K
Megalodon (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Megalodon is a 2002 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, natural horror, suspense
Plot: shark, dangerous animal, killer shark, shark attack, danger, escapades, isolation, forces of nature, monster, creature, killer animal, animal attack ...
Time: jurassic, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Attack of the Sabertooth (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, survival, isolation, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, college, killer animal, creature feature, amusement park, laboratory ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Style: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ant, supernatural, giant insect, monster, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, danger, deadly creature, dangerous animal, toxic ...
Place: florida, everglades, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
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, rough, suspenseful, scary, mythical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, sea monster, killer animal, creature feature, loch ness monster, lost world, abandoned mine, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, gory ...
Time: jurassic, year 1976, 2000s
Place: scotland, europe, scottish highlands, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Pterodactyl (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Russia, Armenia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, pterodactyl, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, creature feature, expedition, dinosaur, save the day, save the world, heroic mission, paleontologist, race against time ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: armenia, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.1
 2K
SharkMan (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Plot: shark, creature feature, mad scientist, island, killer shark, supernatural, danger, vengeance, escapades, rivalry, heroes, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.9
 3K
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 ⇓
48%
Movie in collections
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Octopus (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, octopus, creature feature, submarine, giant octopus, giant squid, save the day, deadly creature, dangerous animal, danger, monster, animal attack ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: snake, dangerous animal, monster, experiment gone awry, giant snake, plague, heroic mission, danger, killer animal, creature, survival, human versus animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Amphibious Creature of the Deep (2010)
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: serious, scary, mysterious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prehistoric creature, creature feature, deadly creature, killer animal, supernatural, danger, prehistoric animal, escapades, curses spells and rituals, monster, ocean, giant creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.2
 10K
Sharktopus (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
Style: semi serious, scary, suspense, absurd, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killer shark, monster, creature feature, shark attack, shark, sea monster, giant monster, mad scientist, killer animal, danger, dangerous animal, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1990)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In a post-Armageddon world, a young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against mutant cavemen, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
Style: futuristic, cult classic, grindhouse, retro, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, apocalypse, sword and sorcery, sorcery, post apocalypse, kaiju, exploitation, monster, prehistoric animal, giant monster, survival, stop motion ...
Time: prehistory, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Snakehead Terror (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, 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, escapades, supernatural, small town life, experiment gone awry, chaos, animal life, disorder ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sharks in Venice (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, lost treasure, rescue, rivalry, danger, escapades, chase, dangerous animal, survival, killer animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venice, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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