Movies like Atomic Dog
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Atomic Dog (1998)
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a pooch is irradiated by a nuclear plant and threatens the town, only a teenage boy can redeem him.
Style:
tense, emotional, suspenseful, teen, natural horror, dark comedy, nostalgic
Plot:
dog, small town, power plant, animal, teen superhero, redemption, human animal friendship, survival, loyalty, coming of age, creature feature, rescue mission, evacuation, family drama, ethical dilemma, killer animal, isolation, teenager, monster, mutant, puppy, mutation, teenage boy, nuclear reactor, radioactivity ...
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Most similar movies to Atomic Dog
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, natural horror, suspense and serious films with plots about creature feature, survival, animal horror, creature, animal attack, killer animal and monster mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Atomic Dog: Swarmed (2005), Night of the Wild (2015), Bats (1999), Cujo (1983), Komodo (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.
Style:
natural horror, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
animal attack, creature feature, bee, killer animal, insect, survival, struggle for survival, small town, human versus monster, giant animal, animal, human versus animal ...
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A large meteor crashes into a quiet town, and pet dogs become mysteriously aggressive. attacking and killing the residents. Teenager Roslyn (Mays) and her old but faithful dog Shep are out camping when the attacks hit. Now separated by the chaos in ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
killer dog, small town, dog, violence, insanity, camping, survival, danger, death, creature feature, monster, killer animal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
12K
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, rough, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
bat, disaster, animal attack, mad scientist, small town, supernatural, creature feature, monster, dangerous animal, mutation, danger, save the day ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
65%
55K
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, natural horror, scary, serious, creepy ...
Plot:
dog, rabies, macabre, dangerous animal, stephen king, boy, child in peril, brutality, death, animal attack, monster, killer dog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
58%
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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, killer animal, giant monster, trauma, teenage boy, isolation, creature, endangered species ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
50%
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, rattlesnake, creature feature, animal attack, supernatural, rescue, children, grave, panic, love, funeral, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, new york
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is on the verge of death from a bee sting. His daughter, a fearless young, starts a race against time to find the antidote that may save the life of his father. It counts with the help of an expert on bees is satisfied that, as a kind of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
killer animal, bee, fugitives, running for your life, death threat, rescue, struggle for survival, saving a life, survival, threat, creature feature, mutation ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a mysterious monster rises from the Mekong River and attacked Bueng Kan, cuts off people from the outside world. Officials and people in the area, including Chinese scientists who accidentally came to conduct research in Thailand, all forces ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
monster, kaiju, creature feature, lake, creature, giant monster, egg, lake monster, monster attack, sea monster, threat, human versus monster ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Man’s best friend becomes his worst nightmare when a horde of bloodthirsty wild dogs descends upon a family’s farmhouse in a fang-bearing fight for survival.
Style:
exciting, captivating, rough, tense
Plot:
dog, killer dog, farmer, animal attack, australian outback, survival, creature, farmhouse, isolation, outback, battles, killer animal ...
Place:
oceania
Similarity:
46%
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, suspenseful, disgusting, classic horror ...
Plot:
animal experimentation, medical school, laboratory, scientist, mutant, danger, isolation, captivity, monster, monkey, killer animal, parallel world ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Similarity:
43%
502
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A horde of rattlesnakes inexplicably descends into Eden Valley, terrorizing an isolated family and forcing them to fight for their lives.
Style:
serious, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
rattlesnake, snake, family relations, creature feature, husband wife relationship, survival, peril, stepfather stepson relationship, child in peril, killer animal, killer snake, disaster ...
Time:
jurassic
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.
Style:
dark, natural horror, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
insect, bee, killer bee, animal attack, killer animal, home invasion, eye, violent content, isolation, countryside, animal life, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dante travels across a desolate, futuristic Spain in search of his girlfriend, Ula. He is pursued by a bloodthirsty, cybernetic Rottweiler.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, rottweiler, chase, manhunt, technology gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, danger, gory, on the run, killer dog, dog ...
Time:
future
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Small town in the Wild West is attacked by poisonous snakes.
Style:
natural horror, creepy, tense, suspenseful, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
snake, animal attack, killer snake, monster, wild west, creature feature, small town, survival, danger, panic, isolation, poisoning ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In effort to create the perfect nutria for breeding by the fur industry, a scientist and his assistant inadvertently create a brutal mutation that escapes into the nearby swamps.
Style:
creepy, dark, retro, tension, suspenseful ...
Plot:
swamp, mutation, killer animal, creature feature, mutant animal, isolation, monster, escape, survival, fear, violent, mad scientist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
40%
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, creature feature, desert, animal attack, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, space and aliens, danger, journalism, monster, killer animal, news reporter ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
40%
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, animal attack, camping, bear, creature feature, hawk, snake, attempted rape, wolf attack, killed by a dog, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
40%
3K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark ...
Style:
rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
bird attack, bird, small town, raven, corpse, diner, danger, misfit, amish, curse, deadly creature, social relations ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After a series of brutal, unexplained murders in a remote forest, a rogue military unit is recruited to hunt for whoever - or whatever - has rendered the attacks. In order to carry out the investigation, they need the help of the only survivor, ...
Style:
dark, slasher, suspenseful, tense, grim ...
Plot:
creature feature, violence, isolation, alien, psychological trauma, hunted, mental institution, survival, gory, confrontation, claustrophobia, investigation ...
Similarity:
36%
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, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature feature, insect, monster, killer animal, small town, giant insect, motorcycle, sheriff, death, exploitation, animal attack, creature ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, slasher, mumblecore ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dangerous animal, isolation, survival, boat, eaten alive, drowning, killer fish, youth, danger, lake, buddies, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
562
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes to life.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, grim, atmospheric, slasher ...
Plot:
monster, curse, festival, small town, survival, supernatural, paranormal, rehearsal, isolation, monster hunter, folklore, investigation ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a small island in the Florida Everglades, a DEA agent and a local sheriff gather a team of locals to take down a giant meth-fueled alligator.
Style:
absurd, splatter, dark comedy
Plot:
alligator, methamphetamine, creature feature, swamp, small town, man versus nature, survival, exploitation, gory, animal attack, rescue mission, satire ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Family moves into new home and is attacked by stray cats.
Style:
suspense, creepy, tense, atmospheric, unpredictable ...
Plot:
animal attack, killer animal, isolation, isolated house, dog, terror, paranoia, small town, survival, violence, claustrophobia, family conflict ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
snake, rattlesnake, small town, race against time, survival, plague, deadly creature, heroic mission, mutation, undercover, laboratory, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
jurassic
Place:
california, maryland
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The ...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot:
creature feature, monster, creature, science gone wrong, biohazard, human experiment, body horror, dark secret, corporate conspiracy, survival horror, ethical dilemma, alien ...
Similarity:
33%
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, experiment gone awry, danger, plague, supernatural, rivalry, deadly creature, murder, monster, creature feature, insect, creature ...
Similarity:
33%
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, danger, supernatural, gory, creature feature, animal, scared, killer animal, psychiatric ward, creature ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia, pittsburgh
Similarity:
33%
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, isolation, danger, escapades, forces of nature, monster, creature, killer animal, animal attack, water ...
Time:
jurassic, prehistory
Similarity:
33%
305
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A respectful nod to classic kids-in-peril adventure films that finds a group of reluctant kids stranded overnight in an abandoned jail. Their chaperon is missing, their cellphone service is non existent, and their patience with each other is running ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
creature, survival, monster, creature feature, beast, eye, struggle for survival, murderer, abandoned building, abandoned house, teenager, murder ...
Similarity:
32%
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