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Plot Summary:
Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like Manticore (2005):
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Warbirds (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in the Pacific after an encounter with a deadly storm. On the island, they must not only contend with a small band of Japanese soldiers but the native inhabitants of the island as well - vicious prehistoric Pterodons.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating
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Sand Serpents (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, natural horror, scary, serious
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Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat, fast, computer animated, splatter
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Jabberwock (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn of an imminent attack by a winged creature with the body of a dragon the head of a gruesome insect and deadly claws. As the beast descends upon the peaceful town brash Alec draws his sword and the villagers arm themselves. Now the brothers must stand together to save their home and the people they love.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, serious
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DNA (1996)
Plot Summary:
DNA is a 1997 American science fiction action film starring Mark Dacascos and Jürgen Prochnow, and directed by William Mesa. Filming took place in the Philippines. The film was retitled ADN - La menace for its French DVD release, and Scarabée for its television showing.An evil scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, scenic, independent film, exciting, cult film
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Hellhounds (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, mythical, scary, serious, psychotronic
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Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - said to be guarded by the very beast that murdered his family. As they come face to face with the killer Kraken, they must also battle a ruthless crime lord, who will stop at nothing to seize the coveted treasure for himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, natural horror, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, independent film, computer animated
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Maneater (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a dismembered body is found in the Appalachian Mountains, a county Sheriff is shocked to discover that the predator is a six-hundred pound Bengal tiger.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, disturbing, cult film
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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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Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)
Plot Summary:
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
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Wyvern (2009)
Plot Summary:
The residents of a small Alaskan town find themselves under attack by a flying reptile known in medieval mythology as a Wyvern. It has thawed from its ancient slumber by melting icecaps caused by global warming.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, stylized, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, scenic, mythical, psychotronic
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King of the Lost World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Mandrake (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychotronic
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Roadkill (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, surprise ending
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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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Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they're trapped within it's world, and if it doesn't kill them, the criminals will.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, exciting, natural horror, slasher, independent film, realistic, psychotronic
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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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Hydra (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
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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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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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Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
Plot Summary:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, hilarious
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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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Bermuda Tentacles (2014)
Plot Summary:
After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the President. A giant monster beneath the ocean awakens and attacks the fleet.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, disaster movie
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Monster Ark (2008)
Plot Summary:
This is film-making of the shoddiest and laziest sort. Every scene is a showcase for the writer/director's ignorance. O'Brien is completely unfamiliar with science. He knows nothing of how scientists talk, how they analyze, how they approach discovery. He is completely ignorant of how military personnel think, how they process situations, how they act, and how they carry themselves. O'Brien even misses the most basic tenets of Christianity.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, psychotronic
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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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Raptor Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, tense, suspense, dark, fast, psychotronic
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Carny (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast escapes, tearing the citizens to shreds, local sheriff Sam Atlas steps up to form a tracking team. But the carnivorous fugitive is only one of Sam’s problems. The local pastor, enraged by the death of his son at the hands of the beast, has plans for igniting his own brand of hellfire and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, mythical, serious, psychotronic
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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