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Plot Summary:
Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles. With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor stands in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, natural horror, romantic, mockbuster, horror comedy, psychotronic
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2 Lava 2 Lantula! (2016)
Plot Summary:
When an unprecedented amount of sinkholes erupt all over Florida, a new nest of fire spitting LAVALANTULAS is awakened… wreaking their fiery havoc all over the sunshine state.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, semi serious, mockbuster, natural horror, weird
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Big Ass Spider! (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, scary, psychotronic, natural horror, absurd, horror comedy, psychological, tense, funny
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Infestation (2009)
Plot Summary:
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 - a grotesque, powerful and very angry bug. All 3 ft of it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, apocalyptic, humorous, scary, horror comedy, suspense, black comedy, perverse
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Dragon Wasps (2012)
Plot Summary:
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 an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, mockbuster, natural horror, independent film, campy
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Arachnoquake (2012)
Plot Summary:
Giant albino spiders break free from the depths of Earth in New Orleans, making everyone’s worst nightmare a reality.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, not serious, suspense, absurd, hilarious, scary, fast, psychotronic, campy, disaster movie
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Infested (2002)
Plot Summary:
Horror tale of insects which eat their victims from the inside out.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, exciting, psychological, tense, cult classic, natural horror, surprise ending
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Mongolian Death Worm (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an American oil company sets up an experimental drilling plant out in the vast deserts of Mongolia, they awaken a nest. The deadly creatures begin to breed and spread, devouring everyone in their path. The only person who can stop them is treasure hunter and adventure seeker who spent his life searching for a legendary tomb, fabled to be protected by the Death Worms. He knows he must do what he can to kill the creatures, but stopping these monsters may mean destroying his life's work forever!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, natural horror, exciting, serious
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Camel Spiders (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual creatures that for years have tormented our armed forces in the Middle East, these creatures have now invaded the southwestern deserts of the United States. The Camel Spiders now freely hunt for prey, unafraid of any predator - including man. No place is safe no one is beyond their paralyzing sting. In the end, a small band of hearty fighters are forced to make one last stand against the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, natural horror, independent film, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, scary
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Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, loose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicous about the rough treatment and injections given by ship's doctor Gerbac which make the strong man faint, and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broke as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around and finds human bodies on meat hooks, but even Alex thinks he's just hallucinating. Alas while sane Jason is restrained for his 'paranoia', the real madmen are the doc's genetic experiment outfit, who abuse their human captives as live incubators for a giant spider's eggs.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, natural horror
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Spiders (2013)
Plot Summary:
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 Tibor Takacs. Originally called "Spiders 3D" but now simply "Spiders".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, independent film, psychotronic
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Sharknado (2013)
Plot Summary:
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: absurd, cult classic, grindhouse, funny, horror comedy, natural horror, scary, retro, scenic, creepy
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Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Plot Summary:
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 an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, absurd, horror comedy, semi serious, suspenseful, splatter, cult classic, funny
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Bugs (2003)
Plot Summary:
A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three metre long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours him. FBI agent Matt Pollack is brought in to investigate, and when forensics reveal the source of the problem, he turns to his friend and entomologist Emily Foster for help. Her studies have chilling results. Matt and a team of crack SWAT commandos must go down and rid the underground of its evil predators. Once in the tunnel, the team is attacked by an army of the creatures. They retaliate with massive firepower, causing the collapse of the tunnel entrance. Their only way out is ten miles ahead through an emergency exit. Matt and his team must get there and exterminate the bugs before they escape into the city causing chaos and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, slasher
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Webs (2003)
Plot Summary:
Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, man-eating, spider-like monsters. The bloodthirsty arachnid-human hybrids stalk and kill their victims one by one, leaving the dwindling group of survivors to fight back with just their wits and a handful of primitive weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
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Ice Spiders (2007)
Plot Summary:
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!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, natural horror, semi serious, hilarious, serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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In the Spider's Web (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, slasher, psychotronic
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Sea Beast (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the fishing village of Cedar Bay, terror lies within the water. And now it has surfaced in search of something more substantial to devour than marine life: human flesh. A captain and a sea biologist must wage a terrifying battle against the deadly creatures in order to save mankind from total extinction.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror, suspense, dark, computer animated, psychotronic
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Dinoshark (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The protagonist, Trace, is first to notice the Dinoshark and witnesses his friend get eaten, but has trouble convincing people that a creature of such antiquity is still alive and eating people.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, stylized, natural horror, mockbuster, hilarious, psychotronic
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Supergator (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Supercroc (2007)
Plot Summary:
A team of soldiers must stop a giant, bloodthirsty crocodile from reaching a nearby city, while trying to avoid being a meal for the beast themselves.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mockbuster, independent film, scary, serious, surprise ending
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Snakehead Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
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2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, absurd, psychotronic, retro, mockbuster, horror comedy, hilarious
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Razortooth (2007)
Plot Summary:
The concept is based on a true story concerning an exotic species of eels that are released in the southeast from Asia. They breathe air and can survive on land.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror, suspense
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Triassic Attack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, fast
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Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, scary, exciting, computer animated
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Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
Plot Summary:
On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and Drake has only one option: kill the creatures before word gets back to Washington and they close him down. When Drake's first team of well-armed mercenaries gets wiped out within hours of setting down in the jungle, he turns to one lone hunter, The Cajun, to go in single-handedly. But will The Cajun be cunning enough to find the creatures and destroy them before they turn the blue waters red with the blood of tourists. The only hope is to bring the monsters together and make them fight. When one emerges victorious, that will be the time to strike and kill the other. It's a risky plan, but ultimately the only one that may work. One of David Carradine's last movies.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, mockbuster, fast, computer animated, psychotronic
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Sharktopus (2010)
Plot Summary:
The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, scary, suspense, absurd, natural horror, retro, mockbuster, horror comedy, cult classic, hilarious
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Arachnid (2001)
Plot Summary:
Arachnid is a 2001 film directed by Jack Sholder. In this movie, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, tense, slasher, surprise ending, scary, serious, psychotronic
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
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 in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous