Giant insect movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant giant insect movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, cult film, scary and natural horror films and TV shows about / with giant insect, monster, insect, danger, creature feature, creature, escapades, animal horror, suspense and deadly plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Adventure genres shot in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries.
giant insect
TOP 10 movies tagged as giant insect: Infestation (2009), Mimic (1997), Love and Monsters (2020), The Mist (2007), Dragon Wasps (2012), Empire of the Ants (1977), Mimic 2 (2001), Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), Star Runners (2009), Glass Trap (2005).
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List of giant insect movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
evil alien, insect, cocoon, survival, giant insect, mutant, monster, attempted seduction, transformation, chaos, plague, deadly creature ...
Time:
21st century
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53K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, melancholic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, mutant, monster, tunnel, entomologist, suspense, creature, experiment gone awry, disease, giant insect ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, who is now 80 ...
Style:
entertaining, not serious, stylized, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot:
monster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, creature, overcoming fear, teenager, love, mutant, survival, bravery, dog, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
california
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318K
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:
atmospheric, twist ending, psychological, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, apocalypse, suspense, religious fanatic, fear, creature, small town, macabre, spider, twists and turns, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, natural horror ...
Plot:
insect, jungle, wasp, giant insect, deadly creature, rescue, mutant, soldier, mutation, scientist, loss of father, military base ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley Of The Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, serious, cerebral ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
post apocalypse, ecology, environmental, nature, apocalypse, female protagonist, giant insect, steampunk, teenage girl, insect, distopia, death of father ...
Time:
future, year 1984, middle ages
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Style:
scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, monster, disaster, ant, giant insect, technology, real estate, giant monster, deadly creature, mutant, dangerous animal, toxic ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida, everglades, usa
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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, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, mutant, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, creature, mutation, plague, high school, good versus evil, survival, rescue ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Malta
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a ...
Style:
psychotronic, stylized, anamorphic, entertaining, retro
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, disaster, tyrannosaurus rex, prehistoric creature, wild animal, giant insect, velociraptor, locust, sea monster, suspense, creature ...
Time:
jurassic, future, 2020s
Place:
texas, italy, malta, utah, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two space smuggles are caught by the government and told if they deliver a create to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the create is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, space horror
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mysterious planet, space travel, survival, space wars, deadly creature, undercover, escapades, giant insect, friendship, mutation, suspense, creature feature ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When an army of radioactive ants are unknowingly carted into a skyscraper, a group of people have to find a way out before they're eaten one by one.
Style:
serious, bleak, rough, scary, psychotronic
Plot:
creature feature, ant, mutant, giant insect, survival, heroes, experiment gone awry, skyscraper, monster, killer animal, elevator, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, drugs, surrealism, addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, cockroach, insect, homosexuality, drug abuse, giant insect, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1953
Place:
usa, new york, canada, north africa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.
Style:
scary, serious, captivating, natural horror, scenic ...
Plot:
creature feature, monster, mutation, wasp, party, creature, juggling, mansion, suspense, giant insect, killer animal, animal attack ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A pack of massive genetically altered Scorpions escape containment on an airplane, turning passengers into victims and forcing one ordinary woman to confront her worst fears.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, psychotronic
Plot:
creature feature, giant insect, murder, scientist, genetics, scorpion, suspense, airplane, aviation, killer animal, insect, disaster ...
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5K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
Style:
scary, tense, semi serious, rough, campy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mutant, monster, dangerous animal, creature feature, wilderness, youth, buddies, drug abuse, giant insect, creature, insect, summer camp ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
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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:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, good versus evil, escapades, destiny, legends and myths, rivalry, survival, adventurer, dangerous animal, forces of nature, cave, monster ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
greece, switzerland, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's the Old Western times and an outlaw named Sam Phoenix (James Marsters, Angel) is about get hanged. But just before the noose tightens, the town is besieged by a lethal alien invader with a laser-shooting stingray and a crazy Sarlacc mouth. ...
Style:
disturbing, tense
Plot:
alien, suspense, alien invasion, giant spider, evil alien, monster, alien creature, creature feature, survival horror, vestiges of humanity, alien life-form, alien parasite ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, entertaining, bloody, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
military, alien, monster, alien invasion, creature, soldier, space and aliens, space wars, distopia, space travel, evil alien, fictional war ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, jurassic, 22nd century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, exciting, psychotronic, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
jungle, island, lost city, atlantis, fantasy world, expedition, legends and myths, beautiful scenery, lost world, gold, teenager, chase ...
Time:
2010s, 19th century
Place:
hawaii, fictional island
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
Style:
futuristic, stylized, intense, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, space, military, war, alien, battles, suspense, space travel, heroes, soldier, mars, burned alive ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel/General Johnny ...
Style:
futuristic, absurd, exciting, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, space, military, alien invasion, space wars, space and aliens, evil alien, marauder, soldier, space marine, battles, space travel ...
Time:
23rd century
Is relevant ?
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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species of venomous spiders is discovered, and soon they mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the city. Starring Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, directed by ...
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot:
giant spider, spider, dangerous animal, deadly creature, chaos, satellite, escapades, monster, creature feature, subway, insect, animal attack ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, funny, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, money, stealing a car, mistaken identity, escapades, criminal, human animal relationship, satire, animal human communication, silly humor, friends, anthropomorphic animal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside town of Mountview, in California, is attacked by a lethal species of large cockroach. After some of the town's inhabitants are killed, the ...
Style:
natural horror, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, creature feature, insect, animal attack, killer animal, lake, giant insect, sheriff, mutation, nightmare, exterminator, attack ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychotronic, retro, cult film
Plot:
creature feature, monster, giant monster, insect, bacteria, virus, infection, exploitation, suspense, kaiju, animal attack, body horror ...
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old ...
Style:
stylized, breathtaking, atmospheric, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, astronaut, moon, alien, space, space exploration, creature feature, mentor, monster, good versus evil, life philosophy, creativity ...
Time:
60s, 1890s, year 1964, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
antarctica, england, europe, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a ...
Style:
dark fairy tale, semi serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
campfire story, fast food restaurant, urban legend, insanity, creature, youth, fat boy, monster, giant insect, elementary school, disgust, bully ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The 8th Godzilla film is aimed at an even younger audience than its predecessors. In the South Seas, scientists conducting weather experiments encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking Godzilla's offspring.
Style:
scary, humorous, exciting, suspenseful, allegory ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, island, monster, godzilla, giant spider, disaster, suspense, weather, catastrophe, weather manipulation, supernatural ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant ?
19K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
tunnel, missing husband, supernatural, missing person, investigator, sister sister relationship, grief, ghost, evil force, woman in danger, hopes, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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