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 suspense, psychotronic, serious, scary, suspenseful and natural horror films and TV shows about / with giant insect, creature, monster, creature feature, danger, insect, bug, escapades, killer animal and animal horror plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Adventure genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as giant insect: Love and Monsters (2020), Mandibles (2020), Infestation (2009), Dragon Wasps (2012), Empire of the Ants (1977), Star Runners (2009), Glass Trap (2005), Stung (2015), Meet the Applegates (1990), Mimic 2 (2001).

List of giant insect movies

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Love and Monsters (2020)
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, fairy tale, suspense, apocalyptic, horror comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy, adult
Plot: monster, post apocalypse, creature, apocalypse, overcoming fear, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mutant, giant monster, jungle, fight, loneliness, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2020s
Place: california
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 6K
Mandibles (2020)
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: funny, satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, mistaken identity, giant insect, satire, criminal, absurd humor, escapades, silly humor, friends, human animal relationship, animal human communication, extreme ...
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 10K
Infestation (2009)
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, apocalyptic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cocoon, evil alien, insect, survival, attempted seduction, mutant, monster, creature feature, transformation, giant insect, chaos, plague ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 3.1
 1K
Dragon Wasps (2012)
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, mockbuster ...
Plot: insect, wasp, giant insect, deadly creature, rescue, mutant, soldier, danger, giant monster, mutation, scientist, military base ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
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: teens, boys' night
Plot: ant, supernatural, giant insect, monster, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, danger, deadly creature, dangerous animal, toxic ...
Place: florida, everglades, usa
Is relevant ?
 4.2
 1K
Star Runners (2009)
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, serious, suspenseful, space horror, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mysterious planet, space travel, survival, danger, space wars, deadly creature, undercover, escapades, giant insect, mutation, friendship, space ...
Is relevant ?
 3.1
 1K
Glass Trap (2005)
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, suspense ...
Plot: creature feature, ant, mutant, giant insect, survival, heroes, danger, experiment gone awry, killer animal, skyscraper, monster, elevator ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 5.1
 5K
Stung (2015)
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, horror comedy, suspense, natural horror, captivating ...
Plot: creature feature, mutation, wasp, creature, party, killer animal, juggling, mansion, giant insect, animal attack, monster, eye ...
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Meet the Applegates (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Giant preying mantis living in a south American jungle decide to move into suburban USA. Disguised as humans, the mantis are planning something.. Could it be connected to dad's job in the power station perhaps ?. One day the daughter mantis ...
Style: cult classic, black comedy, humorous, independent film, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: satire, interspecies sex, rain forest, cocoon, praying mantis, dysfunctional family, insect, jungle, male nudity, monster, creature, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: wisconsin, ohio, usa, rio de janeiro
Is relevant ?
 4.5
 6K
Mimic 2 (2001)
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, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, mutant, creature, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, insect, mutation, creature feature, rescue, good versus evil, survival ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 6K
Ticks (1993)
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, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mutant, monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, giant insect, creature, wilderness, buddies, youth, danger, drug abuse, animal attack ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: island, pirate, giant lizard, treasure, castaway, stranded, survival, rivalry, danger, escapades, adventurer, rescue ...
Time: 1860s
Place: fictional island, thailand, virginia
Is relevant ?
 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
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The Food of the Gods (1976)
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, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: killer animal, space and aliens, american football, survival, mutant, monster, giant monster, investigation, creature feature, animal attack, danger, dangerous animal ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: canada, british columbia
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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
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, suspense, stylized, intense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, military, space travel, war, space, alien, survival, battles, alien invasion, heroes, soldier, mars ...
Time: future, distant future, 23rd century
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 55K
Mimic (1997)
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: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: insect, virus, cockroach, disease, creature, experiment gone awry, tunnel, entomologist, monster, giant insect, epidemic, mutation ...
Time: 90s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 3.4
 1K
Caved In (2006)
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: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, treasure hunt, escapades, good versus evil, legends and myths, destiny, danger, adventurer, survival, rivalry, dangerous animal, forces of nature ...
Time: prehistory
Place: greece, switzerland, europe
Is relevant ?
 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
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 2.9
 631
Dragon Fury (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of soldiers are taken to the mountains of Wales to investigate a strange looking monster.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, scenic ...
Plot: dragon, creature, beast, rescue, chase, rage, survival, giant animal, adventurer, danger, lost world, fight ...
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High Plains Invaders (2009)
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: suspense, disturbing, tense, mockbuster, wild
Plot: alien invasion, alien, giant spider, evil alien, survival horror, monster, creature feature, killer animal, giant monster, alien creature, ogre, creature ...
Is relevant ?
 2.3
 791
Tail Sting (2001)
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: suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: creature feature, giant insect, murder, scientist, genetics, scorpion, killer animal, airplane, creature, aviation, disaster, monster ...
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
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, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
Is relevant ?
Starship Troopers (1997)
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, bloody, exciting, allegory ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: military, alien invasion, creature, alien, space travel, monster, soldier, space and aliens, space wars, outer space, fictional war, evil alien ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 90s, year 1997, jurassic ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, space western
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 8.3
 9K
Amphibia (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: The adventures of 13-year-old, self-centered Anne Boonchuy who is magically transported to the fictitious world of Amphibia, a rural marshland full of frog-people. With the help of an excitable young frog named Sprig, Anne will transform into a hero ...
Style: funny, feel good, captivating, enigmatic, colorful ...
Audience: kids, teen fantasy, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, frog, animal that acts human, danger, magic, human animal relationship, 13 year old, giant bird, teenager, parallel world, betrayal, insect ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 4.8
 1K
Blue Monkey (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
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: retro, suspense, cult horror, surprise ending, independent film ...
Audience: kids
Plot: giant monster, creature feature, monster, creature, insect, exploitation, animal attack, kaiju, body horror, virus, infection, bacteria ...
Time: year 1987
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Simon, son of the king, must flee when the empire is overthrown by the evil Shurka. Schooled in the arts of magic, he must find the Ring of Magic and the Sword of Power and defeated the wizard who killed his father. He is joined in his quest by the ...
Style: melancholic, fantasy adventure, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: sword and sorcery, magic, sorcery, wizard, zombie, love interest, battles, sword fight, princess, queen, barbarian, cave ...
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First Men in the Moon (1964)
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, classic horror, uplifting, gothic horror, serious ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: space travel, moon, alien, space, stop motion, steampunk, astronaut, creature feature, moon landing, space exploration, space opera, spacesuit ...
Time: year 1964, 1890s, 20th century, 60s, 19th century ...
Place: europe, england, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant ?
 5.1
 2K
The Willies (1990)
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: anthology, dark fairy tale, horror comedy, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, horror for children
Plot: campfire story, school janitor, elementary school, urban legend, amusement park, fast food restaurant, monster, bully, boy strangling, youth, insanity, creature ...
Time: 90s
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Son of Godzilla (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, 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, suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, island, godzilla, giant spider, disaster, weather, weather manipulation, killer animal, heroes, danger ...
Time: year 1967, jurassic, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 295
Bugged (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Bugged! tells the story of a group of bumbling exterminators who are called over to the house of an attractive young novelist to rid her house of insects. Unfortunately, due to a horrible chemical mix-up, the poison spray causes the bugs to grow to ...
Style: natural horror, grindhouse, scary, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature feature, insect, american horror, monster, blaxploitation, creature, giant insect, exterminator, mutation, mutant, disorder, gory ...
Time: 90s
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