Movies like Alligator

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Alligator (1980)
 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, suspense, stylized, witty, suspenseful, grindhouse, humorous, surprise ending, dark comedy, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, sewer, mutation, scientist, hunter, creature feature, urban legend, monster, toxic, animal attack, giant animal, creature, beast, blood, reptile, crocodile, toxic waste, killed by an animal, giant monster, animal life, exploitation, danger, police officer, animal experimentation, female scientist ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, new jersey
Keyword: attack, oldies

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Most similar movies to Alligator

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out natural horror, scary, suspenseful and serious films with plots about creature feature, creature, animal horror, monster, danger, killer animal and deadly mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Alligator: Lake Placid (1999), The Blob (1988), Octopus II (2001), Piranha (1978), Prophecy (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.8
 65K
Lake Placid (1999)
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, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: crocodile, killer animal, dangerous animal, gory, sea monster, rescue, eaten alive, voyeur, investigation, escapades, danger, creature feature ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, jurassic
Place: maine, new york, usa, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake...
Style: detective, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, creature feature, animal attack, killer animal, crocodile, eaten alive, panic, giant animal, toxic waste, sewer, monster, urban legend ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
53%
 5.5
 6K
Prophecy (1979)
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: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature feature, monster, toxic, contamination, bear, creature, environmentalism, mutant, danger, animal life, rivalry, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Night of the Lepus (1972)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, absurd ...
Plot: giant animal, mutation, monster, gene manipulation, creature feature, experiment gone awry, giant monster, chaos, dangerous animal, mad scientist, danger, heroes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 29K
The Bay (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 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: disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: infection, parasite, found footage, disaster, virus, plague, disease, ecological disaster, apocalypse, infected, danger, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Lake Placid 2 (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake as two males and one aggressive female crocodile, which is protecting her nest, wreak havoc on the locals.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer animal, crocodile, animal attack, creature, voyeur, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, female nudity, bare breasts, parents and children, hitman ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
 5.1
 5K
Abominable (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, action packed ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, woods, supernatural, creature, creature feature, survival, danger, legends and myths, monster, deadly creature, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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 ⇓
36%
 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 ⇓
35%
 5.8
 30K
The Relic (1997)
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, exciting, serious, suspenseful, splatter ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, human versus monster, supernatural, museum, deadly creature, gory, beast, creature, violence, fear, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: chicago, brazil, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.4
 2K
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 ⇓
35%
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
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, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, raped by monster, rape, monster, impregnation, survival, creature feature, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, fisherman, humanoid ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
 3.6
 4K
Carnosaur (1993)
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, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, mad scientist, virus, creature feature, danger, genetics, creature, kaiju, chaos, deadly creature, tyrannosaurus rex, disorder ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: nevada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 5.3
 13K
DeepStar Six (1989)
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, suspense, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, underwater, survival, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, alien, disaster, rescue, shark, space ...
Time: future, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
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, natural horror ...
Plot: spider, creature feature, death, tarantula, animal attack, monster, plague, amateur detective, chaos, family in danger, dangerous animal, investigation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.6
 14K
C.H.U.D. (1984)
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, grindhouse, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, police investigation, toxic, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, danger, survival, murder, exploitation, creature, mutant ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When the prehistoric warm-water beast the Crocosaurus crosses paths with that cold-water monster the Mega Shark, all hell breaks loose in the oceans as the world's top scientists explore every option to halt the aquatic frenzy. Swallowing ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, natural horror, psychotronic, mockbuster ...
Plot: shark, creature feature, monster, giant animal, government agent, battles, giant monster, kaiju, crocodile, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: congo, florida, hawaii, africa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 5.2
 6K
Grizzly (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into ...
Style: scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: grizzly bear, national park, camping, park ranger, hunter, creature feature, bear, wilderness, helicopter pilot, bear attack, animal attack, survival ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
 4.0
 11K
Bats (1999)
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, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: bat, mad scientist, small town, disaster, supernatural, mutation, monster, animal attack, creature feature, survival, danger, save the day ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 3K
Venom (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couples child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London ...
Style: natural horror, slasher, suspense, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, creature feature, killer snake, animal attack, terrorism, killer animal, creature, dangerous animal, nature, kaiju, environmental, cannon ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.8
 45K
Piranha 3DD (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, 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: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: piranha, nudity, killer animal, youth, killer fish, party, danger, dark humor, creature, blonde, teenage girl, fish ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 84K
Jaws 2 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, survival, monster, creature feature, underwater, creature, boat, panic, fish, animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, new england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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