Movies like The Blob

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The Blob (1988)
 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 agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious, scary, splatter, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature, supernatural, gory, death, alien invasion, danger, chaos, race against time, american football, female warrior, supernatural horror, alien encounter, deadly creature, kaiju ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana
Keyword: disgust, reboot, attack, twilight, visit, mexican, movie theatre, watching a movie, sink, gangsters, candy, outburst

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Most similar movies to The Blob

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and psychotronic films with plots about creature, monster, danger, creature feature, blood, deadly and blood splatter mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Blob: Phantoms (1998), Night of the Creeps (1986), The Thing (1982), The Puppet Masters (1994), Creepozoids (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.4
 22K
Phantoms (1998)
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, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style: horror comedy, slasher, grindhouse, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, zombie, college, undead, parasite, supernatural, macabre, teenager, survival, violence, gory, fraternity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 50s, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic ...
Plot: alien, evil alien, alien invasion, alien contact, mind control, deadly creature, ufo, monster, space and aliens, brutality, justice, space ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: iowa, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.0
 3K
Creepozoids (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of ...
Style: apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: post apocalypse, monster, alien, creature, creature feature, mutant, apocalypse, laboratory, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, kaiju, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 39K
Critters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Style: scary, humorous, cult classic, horror comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, creature, alien invasion, alien monster, small town, intergalactic, creature feature, little creatures, evil alien, space and aliens, space, chaos ...
Time: 80s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
83%
 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 6.0
 21K
Body Snatchers (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, exciting, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien invasion, evil alien, alien, soldier, toxic, research, zombie, emotionless, invasion, teenage life, military, monster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: alabama, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 88K
Slither (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style: suspense, entertaining, black comedy, space horror, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: alien, monster, parasite, zombie, body horror, alien invasion, gory, zombie attack, infection, creature feature, creature, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 132K
The Host (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, giant monster, beast, environment, dark humor, creature feature, creature, family in danger, deadly creature, kaiju, daughter, danger ...
Time: year 2002, year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 9K
The Swarm (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, race against time, panic, small town, military, bee, survival, antidote, plague, danger, rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: texas, houston texas, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 3.7
 937
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%
 7.0
 22K
The Hidden (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 4.5
 31K
Species II (1998)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing ...
Style: sexy, scary, futuristic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, nudity, quarantine, evil alien, deadly creature, heroes, save the world, mars, impregnation, sex scene, dna, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s, jurassic, year 1998, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
 7.0
 419K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 41K
The Void (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style: dark, lovecraft, creepy, stylized, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, hospital, monster, cosmic horror, another dimension, insanity, macabre, murder, mutation, small town, isolation, human experiment ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.6
 251K
Life (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space travel, space, mars, outer space, monster, alien, space station, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, extraterrestrial life, first contact ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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, stylized, suspense, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alligator, sewer, mutation, scientist, hunter, creature feature, urban legend, monster, toxic, animal attack, giant animal, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style: suspense, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie attack, gory, virus, end of the world, violence, cannibalism, post apocalyptic, zombie outbreak ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 1995, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 694
Dark Breed (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, rescue, astronaut, heroic mission, save the world, against the rules, race against time, heroes, space travel, danger, supernatural, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 82K
The Invasion (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, psychological ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, survival, invasion, danger, save the world, infected, alien encounter, end of the world ...
Time: year 2007, distant future
Place: washington d.c., usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 196K
Event Horizon (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, supernatural, space station, spaceship, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, cosmic horror, hallucination, nightmare, rescue team ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1997, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Forbidden World (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Style: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, creature feature, mutant, laboratory, exploitation, creature, cocoon, monster, mad scientist, genetics, space and aliens, danger ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Nightmare City (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, airplane, zombie apocalypse, infected, zombie attack, danger, countryside, apocalypse, rescue, virus, survival, chaos ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: southern italy, rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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