Movies like They Crawl

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They Crawl (2001)
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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 computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, experiment gone awry, supernatural, plague, murder, dangerous animal, rivalry, danger, deadly creature, monster, mutant, insect, creature feature, cockroach, animal attack, creature, zombie, conspiracy, chases and races, escapades, law enforcement, good versus evil, police investigation, disorder, mad scientist ...
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and natural horror films with plots about danger, deadly, creature feature, escapades, supernatural, creature and experiment gone awry mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like They Crawl: Caved In (2006), Man's Best Friend (1993), The Bone Snatcher (2003), Infested (2002), Alien Lockdown (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Caved In (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, treasure hunt, escapades, good versus evil, legends and myths, destiny, danger, adventurer, survival, rivalry, dangerous animal, forces of nature ...
Time: prehistory
Place: greece, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Man's Best Friend (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.
Style: scary, intense, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, killer dog, chase, gory, monster, dog attack, animal attack, dangerous animal, animal, dog, survival, animal experimentation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bone Snatcher (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, natural horror, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, desert, supernatural ability, survival, deadly creature, danger, survival horror, creature feature, ant, travel, exploitation, mysterious disappearance ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.9
 1K
Infested (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Horror tale of insects which eat their victims from the inside out.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: escapades, survival, supernatural, disorder, chaos, buddies, deadly creature, danger, plague, experiment gone awry, friendship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 3.7
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil alien, experiment gone awry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, deadly creature, survival, gory, danger, save the world, mad scientist, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.7
 2K
DNA (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: DNA is a 1997 American science fiction action film starring Mark Dacascos and Jürgen Prochnow, and directed by William Mesa. Filming took place in the Philippines. The film was retitled ADN - La menace for its French DVD release, and Scarabée for ...
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, jungle, dangerous animal, deadly creature, supernatural, jungle adventure, creature, danger, experiment gone awry, creature feature, monster, evil ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: borneo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 867
Bugs (2003)
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, deadly creature, race against time, chaos, special agent, swat, killer animal, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
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Deadly Swarm (2003)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seeking out a cure for his wife's serious illness, scientist Dr. Schroeder (McCormack) heads deep into a forbidden jungle in Guatemala, trapping thousands of killer wasps. Working with secret military backing, it is Schroeder's contention ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror
Plot: insect, deadly creature, supernatural, survival, journalism, mutant, rivalry, escapades, isolation, danger, experiment gone awry, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 3.9
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Black Swarm (2007)
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: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: killer animal, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, danger, survival, bio weapon, deadly creature, investigation, escapades, violent content, insect, graphic violence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.5
 651
Project Viper (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, fast
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, experiment gone awry, government agency, deadly creature, save the world, survival, chaos, heroic mission, danger, race against time, special agent, space travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Spider's Web (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: spider, rescue, mad scientist, survival, killer animal, deadly creature, rivalry, escapades, danger, obsessive quest, experiment gone awry, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
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Webs (2003)
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: teens, boys' night
Plot: giant spider, parallel world, survival, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, supernatural, chaos, heroic mission, rescue, rivalry, escapades, deadly creature ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 6.4
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Phase IV (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Style: natural horror, apocalyptic, psychotronic, phantasmagoric, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, ant, animal attack, monster, apocalypse, dystopian future, survival horror, killer animal, creature feature, insect, scientist, murder ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.2
 3K
King Cobra (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.
Style: serious, tense, experimental, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: giant snake, laboratory, snake, dangerous animal, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, escapades, small town, martial arts, animal attack, science runs amok, shark ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Teenage Caveman (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, survival, caveman, chaos and mayhem, danger, life is a bitch, society, vampire, dystopian future, apocalypse, mutant, post apocalypse ...
Time: stone age, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
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Proteus (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, scary, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, mutant, laboratory, gang, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, mad scientist, danger, ocean, drug dealing, creature feature, alien ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
 3.4
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Fangs (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Scottsville is a sleepy town, where the yearly apple blossom festival is usually the only 'memorable' event, so Police Chief Sam Taylor is furious when young cop Ally Parks -who comes from the big city- insists on investigating the death ...
Style: suspense, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, natural horror
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, police investigation, mad scientist, supernatural, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, escapades, deadly creature, rivalry, danger, murder, disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 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 ⇓
26%
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 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 ⇓
25%
 5.1
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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 ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
25%
Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, soldier, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, survival, escapades, deadly creature, heroes, danger, supernatural, terrorism ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: russia, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
24%
 3.7
 2K
Mosquito Man (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mosquito, insect, experiment gone awry, monster, supernatural, danger, swat, body horror, virus, transformation, escaped prisoner, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.2
 839
Bottom Feeder (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: mutant, tunnel, monster, creature feature, danger, dangerous animal, supernatural, chaos, creature, murder, scientist, survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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