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, suspenseful, natural horror and scary films and TV shows about / with giant insect, creature feature, monster, creature, bug, animal horror, killer animal, insect, danger and deadly creature plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as giant insect: Love and Monsters (2020), Infestation (2009), Insecticidal (2005), Stung (2015), Leeches! (2003), Glass Trap (2005), Empire of the Ants (1977), Ticks (1993), Mimic 2 (2001), Star Runners (2009).

List of giant insect movies

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, horror comedy, suspense, fairy tale, apocalyptic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy, adult
Plot: monster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, friendship, loner, overcoming fear, lifestyle change, giant monster, mutant, jungle, giant crab, dog ...
Time: 2020s
Place: california
Is relevant?
 5.8
 10K
Infestation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
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: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil alien, insect, cocoon, giant insect, attempted seduction, monster, double barreled shotgun, father son relationship, eaten alive, deafness, transformation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant?
 3.3
 852
Insecticidal (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Cami is a dedicated student of entomology that is researching insects in her sorority house. When her sorority sister Josi sprays insecticide on her bugs, Cami becomes upset. But sooner she learns that the insects had grown bigger and bigger and she ...
Style: sexy, natural horror, queer horror, dark, semi serious ...
Plot: mutant, supernatural, woman in danger, creature feature, female fighter, monster, creature, campus, giant insect, sorority, insect, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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, serious ...
Plot: creature feature, mutation, wasp, eye, creature, party, killer animal, juggling, mansion, bee, animal attack, giant insect ...
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 3.1
 1K
Leeches! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a crop of doped-up athletes from the Lakecrest College swim team dive into the campus lake to blow off some steam, the bloodsucking leeches below the surface undergo a stunning transformation. After ingesting small amounts of the swimmers' ...
Style: suspense, semi serious, scary, disturbing, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature feature, cocoon, swimming pool, mutant, teenage life, youth, power relations, leech, survival, steroids, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Is relevant?
 3.3
 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, rough, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: creature feature, giant insect, ant, survival, heroes, danger, experiment gone awry, skyscraper, elevator, monster, creature, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant?
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, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: giant insect, ant, supernatural, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, deadly creature, danger, dangerous animal, toxic, cons and scams ...
Time: 70s
Place: florida, everglades, usa
Is relevant?
 5.5
 7K
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: bloodsucker, giant insect, monster, mutant, drug abuse, creature feature, dangerous animal, creature, wilderness, buddies, youth, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, california
Is relevant?
 4.6
 7K
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, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, giant insect, creature, insect, school, child in peril, supernatural ability, mutation, creature feature, good versus evil, rescue, survival ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, 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, suspense, space horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mysterious planet, giant insect, survival, danger, undercover, deadly creature, escapades, friendship, mutation, creature feature, space wars, killer animal ...
Is relevant?
 4.8
 2K
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: surprise ending, independent film, cult horror, retro, suspense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: giant insect, quarantine, hospital, cocoon, giant monster, creature feature, monster, creature, insect, body horror, mutation, entomologist ...
Time: year 1987
Is relevant?
 6.0
 59K
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, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot: insect, cockroach, virus, giant insect, disease, tunnel, eaten alive, entomologist, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, epidemic ...
Time: 90s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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 3.2
 3K
Ice Spiders (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A scientific experiment goes haywire, creating an arachnophobic nightmare. If there's a way to stop them, somebody better find it soon before they kill everything in sight!
Style: suspenseful, scary, natural horror, semi serious, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: giant spider, experiment gone awry, creature feature, spider, cocoon, monster, mad scientist, eaten alive, laboratory, gory, heroic mission, rivalry ...
Place: utah
Is relevant?
 3.4
 1K
Caved In (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 97 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, serious, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, treasure hunt, escapades, good versus evil, destiny, adventurer, survival, danger, rivalry, forces of nature, gory, giant insect ...
Time: prehistory
Place: greece, switzerland, europe
Is relevant?
 3.1
 1K
Dragon Wasps (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Belize
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: giant insect, insect, wasp, rescue, deadly creature, mutant, danger, soldier, giant monster, mutation, scientist, loss of father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 7.1
 371K
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, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
Is relevant?
High Plains Invaders (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, Romania, USA
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, giant insect, evil alien, survival horror, monster, creature feature, killer animal, giant monster, ogre, alien creature ...
Is relevant?
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, stylized, suspense, intense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, military, space travel, vigilante, survival, alien, female nudity, bare chested male, battles, soldier, heroes, mars ...
Time: future, distant future, 23rd century
Is relevant?
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First Men in the Moon (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
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, gothic horror, classic horror, uplifting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: space travel, alien, stop motion, moon, giant insect, space, steampunk, astronaut, moon landing, creature feature, space exploration, space opera ...
Time: year 1964, 20th century, 1890s, 60s, 19th century ...
Place: england, europe, ussr, soviet union, antarctica
Is relevant?
 6.6
 8K
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: satirical, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, mistaken identity, money, giant insect, criminal, silly humor, animal human communication, satire, escapades, friends, absurd humor, human animal relationship ...
Is relevant?
 2.5
 839
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: suspenseful, rough, suspense, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: creature feature, giant insect, murder, scientist, genetics, scorpion, killer animal, airplane, creature, monster, disaster, aviation ...
Is relevant?
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: black comedy, cult classic, independent film, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: satire, interspecies sex, praying mantis, marijuana, cocoon, rain forest, housewife, dysfunctional family, insect, male nudity, jungle, creature ...
Time: 90s, 1950s
Place: wisconsin, ohio, usa, rio de janeiro
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, sexy, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: alien invasion, military, space travel, monster, space and aliens, creature, soldier, space wars, alien, satire, fictional war, space battle ...
Time: future, 23rd century, year 1997, 90s, jurassic ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, space western, argentina
Is relevant?
 4.2
 650
The Wasp Woman (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Janice Starlin is an aging model who owns a cosmetics company. When a researcher experimenting with wasps brings her a serum that will turn back the aging process, she decides to first try it on herself. The serum works, but it also turns her into a ...
Style: psychotronic, remake of cult film
Plot: giant insect, sex, sex scene, bee, body horror, creature feature, animal attack, killer bee, scientist, model, wasp, photographer ...
Time: 90s
Is relevant?
 4.9
 3K
Mosquito (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. National Park. Some mosquitos begin to feed from the alien's corpses, causing them to grow to the size of a vulture. These mutant insects became very agressive, killing every human being they find. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, horrifying, suspense, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mosquito, mutation, park ranger, mutant, monster, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, chaos, space and aliens, battles, creature ...
Is relevant?
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, mutant, monster, giant monster, investigation, kaiju, animal attack, creature feature, danger, dangerous animal ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 80s
Place: canada, british columbia
Is relevant?
 4.3
 1K
Larva (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, parasite, survival, disorder, chaos, danger, plague, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, small town, monster, creature ...
Place: missouri, usa
Is relevant?
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize ...
Style: horror comedy, humorous, suspense, absurd, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: giant spider, creature feature, spider, monster, stupidity, dumb, cocoon, lone hero, heroes, mad scientist, killer animal, deadly creature ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
Is relevant?
 3.3
 1K
Arachnia (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a small research plane carrying a group of science students and their professor crash-lands in the middle of nowhere, the survivors go to a nearby farmhouse to look for help but soon find themselves besieged by giant mutant spiders.
Style: natural horror
Plot: giant spider, spider, monster, creature feature, kaiju, giant insect, lesbian, animal attack, lesbian sex, bisexual girl, voyeur, giant monster ...
Is relevant?
 2.7
 687
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: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: dragon, creature, expedition, woman in danger, heroes, giant creature, human animal relationship, chase, journey, creature feature, panic, giant insect ...
Is relevant?