Best movies like Parasite
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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 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
Similar in 84%
Screamers (1979)
Plot Summary:
Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, lovecraft, retro, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Deadly Swarm (2003)
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 Thing Below (2004)
Plot Summary:
A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, serious, captivating, computer animated, cult film
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Dark Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong. But when they arrive, the team quickly discovers that the weapons testing performed on the island has unleashed and powerful and deadly entity that will stop at nothing to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious
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The Salena Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious, extraterrestrial object lands in the mining town of Salena, Arizona, the government dispatches a team of Marines to contain the possible threat. Meanwhile, a group of death row inmates ambush their prison bus and take the guards and personnel aboard hostage. Arriving in the seemingly deserted town, they come across the Special Ops captain, the sole survivor of a horrible carnage that's decimated the rest of his unit. Now, with time running out, the group must unite to combat the threat of the savage aliens hunting them in the mine tunnels below, and the peril above from a squad of fighter planes sent to bomb the town to oblivion, in this pulse-pounding, sci-fi thriller.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspense
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Living Hell (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, natural horror, scary
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Deep Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the facility. This is the last word sent out from the scientists. A team of scientists and military personnel are in charge of finding out what went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, apocalyptic, cliffhanger
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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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Something Beneath (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. Environmentalist priest Father Douglas Middleton (Kevin Sorbo) must team up with conference coordinator Khali Spence (Natalie Brown) to stop the slime -- or die trying -- in this sci-fi thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious, 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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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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Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Proteus (1995)
Plot Summary:
Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the memory of its victims. However, even such creatures have their own bad habits.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, scary, independent film, serious, fast
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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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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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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, 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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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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The Rig (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious
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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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Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving a bloody trail of corpses. Murdoch runs, instructing his staff to clean up. They keep failing and being eaten like unsuspecting locals, some alive, even after enlisting ruthless big game hunter Hammett. The fast-growing pregnant monster sheds its skin, thus disabling the only tracking device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, saga, perverse, fast, rough
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Threshold (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, disaster movie
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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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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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Hybrid (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of space renegades hook up with a drifter named McQueen. Together they hole up in an abandoned research facility for the night and are relentlessly pursued by a human/monster hybrid.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, independent film, futuristic, psychotronic
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The Untold (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter, who was one of its passengers. The assembled team includes local guide Clayton Tyne, renowned wilderness expert and author Winston Burg and the beautiful Marla Lawson. Soon, the team begins to suspect that Knowles' main objective is actually to recover the prototype of a DNA testing machine called the Huxley Project, which his company has spent years and millions of dollars developing.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, 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