Movies like Tarantula
If Tarantula's mix of small town, monster and experiment stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Tarantula's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 · Directed by Jack Arnold · 79 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Jack Arnold · With Nestor Paiva · Shares: monster, black and white, scientist · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (1950s)
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · Directed by Jack Arnold · 81 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Jack Arnold · With Raymond Bailey · Shares: giant spider, black and white · Also science fiction and horror · From the same decade (1950s)
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall.
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It Came from Outer Space
1953 · Directed by Jack Arnold · 80 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Jack Arnold · Shares: small town, black and white · Also science fiction and horror · From the same decade (1950s)
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · Directed by Don Siegel · 80 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: small town, black and white · Also science fiction and horror · From the same decade (1950s)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963 · Directed by Roger Corman · 79 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: experiment, scientist · Also science fiction and horror
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1956 · Directed by Terry O. Morse · 81 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: giant monster, animal horror · Also science fiction and horror · From the same decade (1950s)
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'.
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The Tingler
1959 · Directed by William Castle · 82 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: black and white, scientist · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (1950s)
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed…
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Phase IV
1974 · Directed by Saul Bass · 86 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: scientist, desert · Also horror and science fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
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The Haunting
1963 · Directed by Robert Wise · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: experiment, black and white
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced…
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Directed by Michael Dougherty · 132 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: giant monster, animal horror
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate…
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Jurassic World Dominion
2022 · Directed by Colin Trevorrow · 147 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: giant monster, scientist
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to…
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The Car
1977 · Directed by Elliot Silverstein · 96 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: small town, desert
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down.