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Plot Summary:
Seeking out a cure for his wife's serious illness, scientist Dr. Schroeder (McCormack) heads deep into a forbidden jungle in Guatemala, trapping thousands of killer wasps. Working with secret military backing, it is Schroeder's contention that the venom from the wasp's stingers can be of great medicinal benefit. But when they try to illegally smuggle the wasps into the US, the truck they are on crashes and the wasps are set free to wreak havoc, making a direct path to a small unsuspecting town. It is up to an American entomologist Daniel Lang and a nosey writer Sandra Kern to stop these deadly wasps - as they lay eggs in their victims to hatch thousands more wasps - before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror
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The Bone Snatcher (2003)
Plot Summary:
After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, natural horror, enigmatic, disturbing, serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful
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Super Hybrid (2010)
Plot Summary:
Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it's a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning -- and outwitting -- humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, slasher, independent film, fast
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Parasite (2004)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Dr. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of testing an experimental cleaning fluid which could revolutionize the oil industry. Hired to carry out the tests is Jacob Rasmussen and his rough and ready crew of deconstruction engineers. But within hours one of them is missing under suspicious circumstances. Things go from bad to worse when environmental activist Mickey Hennessey and his hard-bitten associates seize control of the rig, taking everybody on board hostage. But very soon oil workers and environmentalists will be compelled to join forces in an evolutionary battle for survival. For a savage new life-form has made its home on the rig. And it is hungry.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, experimental
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The Hive (2008)
Plot Summary:
When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called in to stop the massive threat, only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, hilarious, natural horror
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Skeeter (1993)
Plot Summary:
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Black Swarm (2007)
Plot Summary:
The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly Rowe. Devin Hall and the entomologist Katherine Randell are summoned to help with the investigation. Devin is Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend, and Jane still has a crush on him. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends the scientist Eli Giles, who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and now he is trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, natural horror, psychotronic, scary
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Kaw (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, natural horror, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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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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Caved In (2006)
Plot Summary:
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 , blackouts , cave-ins - whatever might threaten their journey and commence their descent into the depths.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror, suspense, disaster movie
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Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered carnivorous bats. The survivors attempt to reach helicopter extraction but encounter various challenges, including Chechen rebels.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, natural horror, suspense, tense, disaster movie
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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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Glass Trap (2005)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, scary, suspense, fast, psychotronic
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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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Vampyre Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, interesting
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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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Unseen Evil (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, independent film
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Bottom Feeder (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, scary, exciting, rough, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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Killer Rats (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller, surprise ending, natural horror
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Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Plot Summary:
A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, exciting, natural horror, humorous, fast, psychotronic, detective
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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Project Viper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator, the military calls on a covert troubleshooter to destroy it before it decimates a small town in its path, and then the rest of the world. The space shuttle Olympus is on a routine mission, but with a far-from-routine payload: "Project Viper," an experimental hybrid of human genes and computer chips, designed to adapt to any environment, particularly that of Mars. But as the shuttle crew prepares to launch the prototype into space, something unexpected occurs. Soon the astronauts are dead, and the Secretary of Defense orders the remaining prototype destroyed. To do the job, he calls on devil-may-care special agent Mike Connors (Patrick Muldoon).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
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Raptor Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological, feel good, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic
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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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Flying Virus (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a series of Amazonian Indian attacks on US owned petroleum installation in Brazil, both governments start a secret 'special program'. In fact colonel Ezekial's men use GM killer bees to eradicate the tribes. During an Indian attack, reporter Ann Bauer is stung, yet survives after a mysterious rescue. Dr. Stephen North realizes the venom has priceless healing powers and smuggles the bee aboard a flight to New York. Bauer, her nearly-divorced husband, Martin, who is aboard and her friend, US State Department project representative, Scotty, face potential mass-killing after turbulence releases the bees aboard.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, fast, cult film, disaster movie
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Locusts (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered locusts.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, scary, rough, disaster movie
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Zombie Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Local mechanic Jake LaFond's life is suddenly disrupted when mysterious parasites transform the law-abiding citizens of his quaint hometown into hoards of cannibalistic zombies. Isolated from the outside world by an accident on the only road out of town, Jake turns to Alex, his ex-girlfriend, for help. Together they try to solve the mystery behind this rapidly spreading infection. As the town grow.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense
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Venomous (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the virus to healthy persons. The military puts the town under quarantine. Local physicians try to control the epidemic, while the military is primarily concerned with keeping the virus a secret.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, suspense, ridiculous, campy, cult film, disaster movie
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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