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Plot Summary:
When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, scary, semi serious, funny, hilarious, fast, psychotronic, freeze frame, natural horror, weird
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Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark (2014)
Plot Summary:
When another Mega Shark returns from the depths of the sea, world militaries go on high alert. Ocean traffic grinds to a standstill as everyone lives in fear of the insatiable beast. Out of options, the US government unleashes the top secret Mecha Shark project -- a mechanical shark built to have the same exact characteristics as Mega. A pair of scientists pilot the mechanical creature as they fight Mega in a pitched battle to save the planet. But when faulty mechanics cause the Mecha to go after humans, the scientists must somehow guide Mega to Mecha in hopes that the two titans will kill each other - or risk untold worldwide destruction.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, retro, apocalyptic, mockbuster, mecha
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, mockbuster, humorous, campy
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Blue Demon (2004)
Plot Summary:
The "Blue Demon" project is an attempt by a team of scientists to train Great White sharks to protect America's coastline from any intruders.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, natural horror
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Piranhaconda (2012)
Plot Summary:
A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, sexy, slasher, grindhouse, mockbuster, surprise ending
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Piranha (1978)
Plot Summary:
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: natural horror, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, rough, perverse, parody, splatter, cult classic, humorous
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Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011)
Plot Summary:
A fanatical animal rights activist (Debbie Gibson) releases giant pythons into the Everglades, believing the wild animals should be set free. When they start decimating the native animal population, an over-zealous park ranger (Tiffany) feeds experimental steroids to wild alligators so they can fight back. The giant pythons and gargantuan alligators go on a killing spree, and it is now left up to the two feuding women to put aside their differences to put a stop to the creatures and the destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, suspense, natural horror, mockbuster, creepy, hilarious, exciting, offbeat
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Sand Sharks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach, it appears that our large fishy friends have found a way to chomp on you when you're chilling out on the sand too!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, suspense, tense, natural horror, exciting, captivating, psychotronic, retro, mockbuster
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Lake Placid 3 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A game warden moves his family to Lake Placid, once the site of deadly crocodile attacks. Locals assure him the crocs are gone, but his mischievous young son finds a few baby crocs and begins feeding them. They quickly grow into very big adults and start attacking the game warden's family and nearby town.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, natural horror, disgusting, wild, cult film
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Dinocroc (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the information is kept from sheriff Harper. His daughter, county dog catcher Diane Harper, helps her ex (welding artist Tom Banning) with his kid brother Michael's beloved dog. They bump into Campbell and discover the dinocroc is growing, having escaped down a tunnel. Although Gereco hires Australian crocodile specialist and intrepid hunter, Richard 'Dick' Sydney, the beast proves impervious to bullets, so the body count rises alarming.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, natural horror, scary, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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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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Shark Swarm (2008)
Plot Summary:
A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, scary, 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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Shark Attack 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
A biological experiment goes bad, this time releasing a gaggle of mutated great white sharks with a taste for human flesh. Soon enough, shark expert Nick West is on the case, leading a crew to study them and eventually bring them back into captivity. West's plans hit a snag, however, when Australian shark hunter Roy Bishop is called in to wipe out the fishy menace.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, natural horror, suspense, mockbuster, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, wild, cult film
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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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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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Super Shark (2011)
Plot Summary:
An offshore drilling accident triggers the release of a giant prehistoric shark. When marine biologist Kat Carmichael arrives, she runs up against corporate front man Roger Wade, who plots with Stewart to disrupt her investigation. With the help of Skipper Chuck and disc jockey Dynamite Stevens, Kat tries to find a way to defeat the monster which has evolved to a state where it can walk on dry land and fly...it's the SUPER SHARK!.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, psychotronic, mockbuster, natural horror, weird, campy
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
Plot Summary:
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: absurd, stylized, natural horror, exciting, tense, retro, suspense, dark, mockbuster, creepy
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SharkMan (2005)
Plot Summary:
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, natural horror, psychotronic
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Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the prehistoric warm-water beast the Crocosaurus crosses paths with that cold-water monster the Mega Shark, all hell breaks loose in the oceans as the world's top scientists explore every option to halt the aquatic frenzy. Swallowing everything in their paths -- including a submarine or two -- Croc and Mega lead an explorer and an oceanographer on a wild chase. Eventually, the desperate men turn to a volcano for aid.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, mockbuster, retro, creepy, hilarious
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Shark Hunter (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. The scientists are wrong. In the darkness of the deep, an underwater research station has been viciously destroyed. Now a tough team of daring divers led by Spencer Northcutt [Antonio Sabato Jr. "Melrose Place"] is taking an experimental sub to war. It's killer instinct vs. sophisticated technology, deadly jaws vs. harpoon-tipped torpedoes, mega-shark vs. modern man is a thrilling extreme deep sea fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, psychotronic
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Megalodon (2002)
Plot Summary:
Megalodon is a 2002 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, natural horror, suspense
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Octopus (2000)
Plot Summary:
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror, suspense, serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, surprise ending, captivating, saga, perverse, exciting, rough
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Attack of the Sabertooth (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of college smalltime thieves puts a virus in the security system to participate in a scavenger hunt, the greatest attractions of the zoo - sabretoothes from the prehistoric age developed from DNA found in fossils - escape, killing the hosts and guards for fun.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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Octopus II (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead bodies are being found in New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the harbor will be filled with boats for the 4th of July celebrations.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, scary, natural horror, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, campy
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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