Movies like Alligator
If you like "Alligator" you are looking for scary, stylized and psychotronic movies about / with alligator, sewer, monster, giant animal, beast, toxic and reptile themes of Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Alligator (1980)
14K
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, psychotronic, witty, suspenseful, entertaining, splatter, humorous, slasher, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alligator, sewer, monster, giant animal, beast, toxic, reptile, mutation, urban legend, scientist, hunter, suspense, creature feature, creature, animal attack, killed by an animal, crocodile, animal life, giant monster, cult, exploitation, vengeance, kaiju, pets, violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago illinois
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Alligator
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, scary, splatter and suspenseful films with plots about danger, monster, deadly, adaptation, first contact, mentor and brutality mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Alligator: Lake Placid (1999), The Blob (1988), Piranha (1978), Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981), C.H.U.D. (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, campy, humorous, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
crocodile, dangerous animal, sea monster, killer animal, suspense, monster, eaten alive, investigation, creature, escapades, rescue, swamp ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
maine, new york, usa, new england, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
40K
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:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, suspense, evil alien, survival, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, body horror, cheerleading, cheerleader, teenager ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
23K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: 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:
suspenseful, parody, rough, splatter, campy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
piranha, killer fish, resort, race against time, killer animal, summer camp, monster, suspense, beach, rescue, experiment, deadly creature ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, Netherlands
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, surreal, bad ending, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, killer fish, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, shark, scuba diving, animals, sea, island, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Movie in collections
13K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, mutant, police investigation, toxic, experiment gone awry, murder, survival, exploitation, creature feature, cult, violence, toxic waste ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Also search:
Movies like Piranha 3DD
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, suspenseful, intense, dark, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mutant, monster, suspense, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, death, creature, secrets, transformation, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, intense, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spider, death, creature feature, tarantula, monster, plague, amateur detective, chaos, dangerous animal, investigation, family in danger, animal attack ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, beach, supernatural, death, suspense, violence, murder, brutality, missing person, escapades, lone hero, sarcasm ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Movie in collections
11K
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, suspenseful, rough, campy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
bat, mad scientist, small town, disaster, supernatural, monster, mutation, survival, animal attack, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, save the day ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
47K
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:
scary, tense, serious, bad ending, splatter ...
Plot:
dog, rabies, dangerous animal, suspense, animals, monster, killer dog, macabre, boy, brutality, survival, creature feature ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Also search:
Movies similar to The Blob
21K
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, twist ending, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, supernatural, small town, military, apocalypse, suspense, hotel, survival, extinction, good versus evil, creature feature, disaster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
28K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infection, parasite, found footage, monster, disaster, suspense, plague, virus, apocalypse, ecological disaster, infected, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Style:
scary, intense, suspenseful, slasher, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, rape, raped by monster, monster, sea monster, survival, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, animal attack, fisherman, creature feature ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
29K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, splatter ...
Plot:
monster, supernatural, creature feature, human versus monster, museum, violence, fear, police investigation, superstition, deadly creature, beast, creature ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
chicago illinois, brazil, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.
Style:
splatter, campy, scary, humorous, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, evil alien, monster, space and aliens, easter, creature feature, alien, disaster, catastrophe, mad scientist, small town, alien invasion ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Also search:
Movies like The Cave
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, Nev., to find that the town of terror has become a theme park, and when the simulated giant worm attacks turn real, the survivalist must battle the creatures once again. Gummer pits his impressive knowledge of ...
Style:
scary, humorous, entertaining, absurd, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, small town, creature, survival, chase, supernatural, rescue, deadly creature, store, suspense, desert, giant monster ...
Place:
argentina, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, surreal, campy ...
Plot:
mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, cult, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, woman in danger, experiment gone awry, stripper ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, dinosaur, mad scientist, mutant, virus, genetics, chaos, deadly creature, disorder, dangerous animal, extinction, kaiju ...
Time:
90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
washington d.c., nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Movie in collections
7K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason ...
Style:
psychotronic, surprise ending, campy, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nature, animal attack, swamp, leech, bird attack, monster, revenge, dysfunctional family, disaster, spider, island, arrogance ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style:
scary, humorous, semi serious, campy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, small town, creature, survival, oil refinery, dinosaur, creature feature, chase, metamorphosis, suspense, hunting, stranded ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
california, mexico, usa, nevada, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Also search:
Lake Placid similar movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
Style:
absurd, stylized, tense, exciting, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
shark, monster, giant monster, octopus, shark attack, dangerous animal, chaos and mayhem, experiment gone awry, forces of nature, creature feature, alien, kaiju ...
Time:
prehistory, 80s
Place:
japan, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize ...
Style:
scary, humorous, absurd, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant spider, spider, creature feature, monster, disaster, creature, suspense, stupidity, giant monster, dumb, heroes, mad scientist ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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:
scary, natural horror, ridiculous, splatter, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, creature feature, exploitation, kaiju, stupidity, suspense, violence, vampire human love, multiple storylines, police investigation, mentor ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Movie in collections
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, sea monster, race against time, creature feature, alien, disaster, giant monster, sea, rescue, suspense, space ...
Time:
future, prehistory, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
Style:
serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature feature, monster, toxic, contamination, bear, environmentalism, mutant, rivalry, experiment gone awry, animal life, pregnancy, giant monster ...
Time:
70s
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Also search:
Films like Sharknado
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
werewolf, dog, transformation, deadly creature, full moon, single mother, monster, supernatural, child in peril, suspense, boy dog relationship, german shepherd ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington state, nepal
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
killer animal, mutant, space and aliens, american football, survival, monster, investigation, dangerous animal, environmentalism, animal attack, creature feature, giant monster ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
canada, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, campy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, genetics, experiment, mutant, rebellion, chaos and mayhem, mutation, survival, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, stranded, monster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, future, 21st century
Place:
indonesia, pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno, the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy horrors.
Style:
sweet, scary, splatter, slasher, campy ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, alien, creature, halloween, creature feature, alien invasion, little creatures, exploitation, disaster, alien creature, farce, demon ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.
Style:
scary, twist ending, slasher, splatter, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
piranha, death, suspense, killer animal, youth, killer fish, party, brutality, dark humor, animal attack, vulgarity, creature ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
