We have all been ‘bugged’ by insects at least once in our lives, whether they are bees or ants. People often find bugs and insects disgusting and dangerous, but there are some people who think that they are pretty interesting creatures, so they watch movies about them. With the wide variety of movies available on the internet about bugs and insects, I would be interested in watching some of them too.
So, if you are someone who has watched Starship Troopers or any other insect-related movies and is looking for some similar recommendations, or if you are someone who is in the mood to watch horror movies, then look no further because we have curated the perfect list of deadly insects/bugs movies that are going to keep you awake at night.
1. Starship Troopers (1997)
Starship Trooper is a science fiction action movie set in the 23rd century when the Earth is on the brink of extinction, so humans start colonizing other planets. This captures the attention of a species called ‘Arachnids,’ which are typical ‘bugs,’ and they start to attack the citizens of Earth. Johnny Rico is a teenager who gets enlisted as a mobile infantryman so that he can stay close to his girlfriend and pilot, Carmen.
The rest of the film follows Johnny as Carmen breaks up with him, and he gets promoted to squad leader and helps the government in beating the Arachnids who have killed millions of people. Starship Troopers stars Casper Van Dien, Jake Busey, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, and others.
- Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
- IMDb rating: 7.3
- Where to watch: Disney Plus, Netflix
2. Mimic (1997)
Mimic is a science fiction horror film set in New York City, which is plagued by a disease called ‘Strickler’ caused due to cockroaches and has killed a lot of children. Dr. Peter Mann contacts Dr. Susan Tyler after he is unable to make a vaccine to cure the disease.
Susan creates ‘Judas Breed,’ which is a hybrid of Mantis and termites that acts as a cure for the disease. Thinking that they have gotten rid of the disease, Peter and Susan get married and lead a peaceful life, but three years later, they realize that ‘Judas Breed’ has backfired and made the cockroaches the size of human beings.
The rest of the film follows Peter, Susan, and several other people as they try to fight off this newfound threat to humanity before it can spread throughout the country. Mimic stars Jeremy Northam, Mira Sorvino, Josh Brolin, Alexander Goodwin, and others.
- Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
- Rating: 6
- Where to watch: Prime Video, Hulu
3. The Nest (1987)
The Nest is a science fiction horror film about a small island called North Port which experiences several strange incidents. Richard, who is the sheriff of the town, finds several cockroaches in his house, the bindings of every book are ruined, and a lot of dogs have died.
To find out what caused the deaths of the dogs, Dr. Morgan arrives in town and finds out that the cockroaches are the cause of the dead animals and that they can reproduce asexually. She also finds out that cockroaches can only be killed by someone, but the amount required to kill them can also be harmful to human beings.
The rest of the film follows the chaos around town and among people as the cockroaches start attacking humans and killing them while Richard tries to find a way to put an end to the cockroaches. The Nest stars Lisa Langlois, Robert Lansing, Terri Treas, Franc Luz, and others.
- Directed by: Terence H. Winkless
- IMDb rating: 5.3
- Where to watch: Roku channel, Prime Video
4. Them! (1954)
Them! is a black-and-white science fiction horror film about a police sergeant, Ben Peterson, and trooper Ed Blackburn as they find a little girl wandering around a desert. They bring her to a trailer which turns out to be her parents, who had come there on a family vacation but were now missing.
Ben and Ed take the girl to a hospital before going to a general store, where they find the owner of the store dead. Later it is revealed that the reason for all the deaths is giant 8-foot-tall ants that have made a colony near Alamogordo.
The rest of the film follows Ben and Ed as they kill the ant colony and go inside it to make sure that they have killed all the ants, but they find out that queen ants have escaped and are making a new colony elsewhere. Them! Stars Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness, and others.
- Directed by: Gordon Douglas
- IMDb rating: 7.2
- Where to watch: Roku, Apple TV
5. Tarantula (1955)
Tarantula! is a science fiction monster film about Dr. Matt Hastings as he is called by the sheriff to study a dead body that he found in the desert. The body turns out to be Matt’s acquaintance Eric Jacob’s. Dr. Gerald Deemer, who was Jacob’s colleague, tells Matt that he died due to acromegaly, but Matt doesn’t believe him. Gerald goes back to his research lab, where he is attacked by his assistant Paul, and they get into a fight, accidentally causing a tarantula the size of a Labrador to escape the lab.
The rest of the film follows Matt as he comes to know about several deaths that are occurring in the town while the tarantula grows rapidly in size, ultimately becoming as big as a house and causing chaos. Tarantula! Stars John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday, and others.
- Directed by: Jack Arnold
- IMDb rating: 6.4
- Where to watch: Prime Video, Vudu, Apple TV
6. The Bug (1975)
The bug is a horror movie about mutant cockroaches that escape from the Earth’s surface during an earthquake. The cockroaches can produce fire by rubbing together their cerci and kill several animals and people of the town before they are discovered by Dr. James Parmiter, who takes an interest in them.
He discovers that the bugs cannot survive in the Earth’s atmospheric pressure and keeps one of them in a tank. He mates the cockroach with a normal one which procreates a different and more intelligent species of cockroach.
The rest of the film follows the insects as they cause havoc around town by setting people and houses on fire. Bug stars Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Jamie Smith Jackson, and others.
- Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
- IMDb rating: 5.2
- Where to watch: Redbox, Vudu, Apple TV
7. The Mist (2007)
The Mist is a science fiction horror film based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film is about a town named Bridgton, Maine, as it is hit by a thunderstorm which leaves the town covered with a mysterious mist.
David Drayton, his son Billy and their neighbor Brent Norton leave for a supermarket to get some supplies, where they get locked in after a civil alert siren goes off. Brent leaves the store to fix something on the outside and gets captured by a tentacle that comes out of the Mist. David and the others soon find out that several large insects and bugs are attacking humans.
The rest of the film follows David and the others as they try to escape from the dangerous insects. The Mist stars Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, and others.
- Directed by: Frank Darabont
- IMDb rating: 7.1
- Where to watch: Netflix
8. The Fly (1986)
The Fly is a horror science fiction film about an eccentric scientist Seth Brundle as he meets science journalist Ronnie at an event and shows her his latest invention, which is teleportation pods that can transport an inanimate object but not something that has tissues.
As Seth experiments on the pods and tries to transport alive things, he begins a relationship with Ronnie. When he is successful in sending a baboon through the pods, he goes to celebrate with Ronnie, but she leaves to meet her ex-boyfriend Stathis.
Seth gets drunk and tries to transport himself through the pods, but a fly gets through the pod with him, and the machine confuses the DNA of two living things and makes a hybrid of both. Seth thought that the machine has purified his body after he gained more strength and stamina, but slowly, he began to crave sugar and had weird hair growing from the wound on his back.
The rest of the film follows Seth’s transformation into a humanoid fly as he loses his sanity while Ronnie becomes pregnant with his child and wants to abort it, thinking that the baby might be a hybrid like Seth too. The Fly stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, and others.
- Directed by: David Cronenberg
- IMDb rating: 7.6
- Where to watch: Hulu
9. Infestation (2009)
Infestation is a horror comedy film about Cooper as he wakes up from a deep slumber one day covered in webbing and feeling weak and nauseous. He escapes from the webbing but is met with a 3-foot-tall beetle-like creature who attacks him.
Cooper manages to eliminate the bug and help her colleague Maureen escape from the same type of webbing. The two escape the building together and help other humans escape from a cocoon of webbing that they had been held in.
The rest of the film follows Cooper and the others as they try to escape these huge creatures and find a safe place for them. Will they manage to escape or be eaten by a bug one by one? Infestation stars Chris Marquette, Brooke Nevin, E. Quincy Sloane, and others.
- Directed by: Kyle Rankin
- IMDb rating: 5.8
- Where to watch: Vudu, Tubi, Prime Video
10. Damnation Alley (1997)
Damnation Alley is a post-apocalyptic film about two men as they fight for the government in World War III, which leaves the country in ruins. Lieutenant Jake Tanner and Major Eugene Denton decide to head to New York, where a single radio transmission has been heard since the war began, but they get attacked by mutated scorpions that have increased in size due to the radiation of nuclear weapons. They manage to escape and make their way toward New York City.
The rest of the film follows the journey of Jake, Eugene, and several others as they come across several mutated bugs and insects while also saving other survivors along the way. Do you think they will make it out alive or get killed by one of the giant bugs? Damnation Alley stars Jan Michael Vincent, Dominique Sanda, George Peppard, Paul Winfield, and others.
- Directed by: Jack Smight
- IMDb rating: 5.2
- Where to watch: Vudu, Redbox, Apple TV
11. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
The Deadly Mantis is a science fiction horror film about a volcanic eruption that causes the North Pole icebergs to shift, which awakens a 200-foot-long sleeping mantis. When a military station named Red Eagle One doesn’t get a reply from one of its other stations, they send Colonel Joe Parkman to investigate, who finds out that the station has been destroyed and the people have been killed. He also finds a big scratch on the ice, which leads him to believe that something deafly has been released from the ice.
The rest of the film follows the Mantis as it causes havoc and kills several people while other military stations try to find a way to kill the monstrous Mantis. The Deadly Mantis stars Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alic Talton, and others.
- Directed by: Nathan H. Juran
- IMDb rating: 5.1
- Where to watch: Fawesome
12. The Black Scorpion (1957)
The Black Scorpion is a black and white Mexican American horror film that follows the story of two geologists, Dr. Hank Scitt and Dr. Arturo Ramos, as they find out about a new volcano in San Lorenzo and travel there to study it. On their way, they come across a destroyed house, an abandoned infant, and a dead body. They take the infant to San Lorenzo and give it to the friends of the deceased.
They visit the ones who let them know of the mysterious killings of the animals in that town, which doesn’t interest the two geologists, and they head to the site of the volcano. As the volcano erupts, they see giant prehistoric scorpions that have been killing the animals of the town.
Soon, they find out that other prehistoric creatures also exist underground and can attack the people of San Lorenzo at any time.
The rest of the film follows Hank and Arturo as they try to find a way to get rid of the giant prehistoric insects so that they can’t kill any more animals or people. The Black Scorpions stars Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Mario Navarro, Carlos Rivas, and others.
- Directed by: Edward Ludwig
- IMDb rating: 5.4
- Where to watch: Pluto TV, Vudu, Apple TV
13. Eight-Legged Freaks (2002)
Eight Legged Freaks is a monster comedy film about Joshua Taft, who is a spider farmer, as he captures crickets from a pond that had been contaminated with some chemicals due to an accident. He shows his collection to a local boy named Mike Parker, and after he leaves, Joshua gets bitten by a tarantula. He accidentally knocks over the container that had spiders that escape and kill him.
After that, the spiders that were fed the contaminated crickets start growing in size and wreck the place. During a town meeting, Mike exits the hall and decides to visit Joshua, but upon arriving there, he finds Joshua’s dead body and the whole house covered in webbings. He tells Chris about the giant spiders lurking in his mine, but he doesn’t believe Mike.
The rest of the movie follows Mike as he tries to alert everyone about the giant spiders which are attacking and killing people around town. Eight-Legged Freaks stars David Arquette, Scott Terra, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson, and others.
- Directed by: Ellory Elkayem
- IMDb rating: 5.5
- Where to watch: Prime Video
14. Larva (2005)
The Larva is a science fiction horror film set in Host, Missouri. Dr. Eli Rudkus is a veterinarian who is called by a farmer to check on one of his cows. Eli discovers that the cow has been infected by a parasite that is eating the animal from the inside, causing it to fall sick and eventually die. Soon, the parasite starts affecting more animals and people, which becomes a major cause of concern for Eli.
The rest of the film follows Eli as he tries to find out the origin of the parasite and a cure to put an end to the deadly virus. Larva stars Vincent Ventresca, Rachel Hunter, Dabid Shelby, William Forsythe, and others.
- Directed by: Tim Cox
- IMDb rating: 4.5
- Where to watch: Tubi TV
15. Tremors (1990)
Tremors is a monster comedy film about two handymen, Valentine McKee and Earl Bassett, as they quit their boring job and decide to visit the nearest town named Bixby. On their way, they come across various mysterious deaths that leave them astonished.
Soon, they find out that a giant worm-like creature is the cause of the deaths which have escaped from the Earth’s surface after an earthquake. Valentine and Earl take the help of a seismology student and find out about 3 other worms that are lurking around town.
The rest of the film follows the duo as they kill the giant worms one by one before they can cause more destruction and finally manage to leave the city. Tremors stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Finn Carter, and others.
- Directed by: Ron Underwood
- IMDb rating: 7.1
- Where to watch: Prime Video
16. Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Snakes on a Plane is an action film about Sean Jones as he is escorted by FBI agents Neville Flynn and John Sanders to Los Angeles because he is a prime witness of a murder and has to be present at court. Eddie Kim, who is a gang boss and the person who ordered the murder, orders his men to place a cargo filled with venomous snakes on the plane and makes sure that they attack the passengers at a certain time.
Mid-flight, the snakes make their way through the cabin and kill a couple having sex in the bathroom and a man who was in another bathroom. Slowly, the snakes spread out and started killing more passengers. The surviving passengers, including both the agents and Sean, go upstairs to the first class and block the gate with luggage.
The rest of the film follows the tragic events that happen on the plane as the snakes kill the pilot and bite the co-pilot. What will happen to Sean and the remaining passengers? Will they die, or will they be saved by Neville and John? Snakes on a Plane star Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Julianna Margulies, Bobby Cannavale, and others.
- Directed by: David R. Ellis
- IMDb rating: 5.5
- Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu, Redbox
17. Slither (2006)
Slither is a black comedy horror film about a town named Wheelsy in South Carolina as an extraterrestrial life crash land there and attacks a wealthy man named Grant before taking over his mind. He controls Grant and abducts a woman named Brenda to act as a breeder for his larvae.
Grant’s wife, Starla, gets suspicious of her husband and calls the police, who rescue Starla while Grant flees. The police find Brenda, who blows up, and the slug-like larva attacks everybody in town, taking over their minds which are being controlled by Grant. The only survivors are Starla, Jack, Bill, and Kylie.
The rest of the film follows Grant as he tries to reunite with his wife Starla, whom he still loves, and the four survivors as they try to find a way to kill grant, which might kill the other people corrupted by his larvae. Slither stars Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Tania Saulnier, Gregg Henry, and others.
- Directed by: James Gunn
- IMDb rating: 6.4
- Where to watch: Netflix, Vudu
18. Phase IV (1974)
Phase IV is a science fiction horror film about two scientists James R. Lesko and Ernest D. Hubbs, as they set up a computerized lab among ant towers created by ants after a cosmic event causes them to grow in intelligence.
Lesko and Ernest are among the few humans who have decided to stay in Arizona, as the rest of the humans ran away after finding the ants behaving strangely. The ants have become immune to every chemical that Lesko used to kill them and infiltrate their lab. The ants ruin their equipment and computers.
The rest of the film follows Ernest as he tries to communicate with the ants while Hubbs makes a plan to move the tower where the queen ant is living, but he gets stung by an ant before he can kill them. Phase IV stars Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Nigel Davenport, and others.
- Directed by: Saul Bass
- IMDb rating: 6.4
- Where to watch: Vudu, Movieland
19. The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
The Monster that Challenged the World is a black and white science fiction monster film about the Salton Sea as an earthquake causes several monsters to escape the crevice of the Earth. The prehistoric monsters, which look like caterpillars known as Mollusks, start killing divers and other people who arrive at the lake.
When a patrol boat sent to retrieve a man who jumped in the lake during rescue training doesn’t come back, commander John Twillinger decides to head towards the lake and find out what happened to the patrol boat. John finds the boat covered with a slime-like thing and takes a sample of it back to his lab and also finds the body of one of the rescuers floating on the water.
The rest of the film follows John and others as they find out that the slime came from a giant mollusk that is attacking and eating any human that dares to swim in the sea. The Monster That Challenged the World stars Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson, Hans Conried, and others.
- Directed by: Arnold Laven
- IMDb rating: 5.7
- Where to watch: Roku, Prime Video, Apple TV
20. Ticks (1993)
Ticks is a horror film about Jarvis Taner, who is a drug dealer. He uses steroids to increase the growth rate of his marijuana plants which attracts the attention of ticks that consume the plants and start mutating. Jarvis goes camping with his friends, where the dog of one of his friends named Panic suddenly dies, which upsets him. Jarvis takes the dog to a veterinarian, who finds the tick inside the dog, which is still alive, and kills it.
The rest of the film follows Jarvis and his friends as they are attacked by a number of ticks while they try to escape them. Ticks stars Peter Scolari, Seth Green, Ami Dolenz, Rosalind Allen, and others.
- Directed by: Tony Randel
- IMDb rating: 5.5
- Where to watch: Prime Video
21. Creepshow (1982)
Creepshow is a comedy horror anthology film about Billy Hopkins, who is a young boy with an abusive father as he reads Creepshow is a horror comic. After his father finds him reading the comic, he punishes him and throws away the comic book, not wanting his son to be exposed to the comic’s violent content. Billy goes to his bedroom, wishing that his father goes to hell.
A knock on his bedroom window catches his attention, after which the film shows five different anthologies about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crates occupant, and a plague of cockroaches. Creepshow stars Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielson, and others.
- Directed by: George A. Romero
- IMDb rating: 6.8
- Where to watch: Prime Video
22. Empire of the Ants (1977)
Empire of the Ants is a horror film about a land developer named Marilyn Fryser as she takes some clients to a beachfront property on a nearby island which in reality is worthless. On their way, they come across a lair of large ants who take notice of them and starts chasing them throughout the jungle.
The ants end up killing some of the clients while the others reach the property, where they notice that the ants have attacked a sugar factory and are feeding on the sugar while the humans stand by doing nothing. The queen ants have gotten the humans under her control by releasing pheromones.
The rest of the film follows the surviving group as they try to blow up the factory and the ant lair to put an end to the ants. Empire of the Ants stars Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John Carson, and others.
- Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
- IMDb rating:4.2
- Where to watch: Roku, Vudu
23. Swarmed (2005)
Swarmed is a science fiction film about Kent Horvath, who is a scientist who successfully creates a pesticide for yellow jacket wasps and experiments with it on a group of eight yellow jacket wasps. Six wasps die, but the remaining two wasps mutate and become highly aggressive and venomous.
That same night, a janitor accidentally frees the two wasps, which kill him, and escapes. The next morning, the janitor is taken to the morgue, where the mortician hears a buzzing sound coming from the janitor’s mouth and opens it to reveal the wasps, which kill the mortician.
The rest of the film follows an entomologist, Christina Brown, and Kent as they find out that Kent’s friend Q has used the pesticide created by him on a nest of wasps which become deadly and start attacking people in the town. Swarmed stars Michael Shanks, Carol Alt, Richard Chevolleau, Booth Savage, and others.
- Directed by: Paul Ziller
- IMDb rating: 3.9
- Where to watch: Tubi TV, Prime Video
24. Bug Buster (1998)
Bug Buster is a comedy horror film about a town named Mountview in California as the mayor of the town uses a dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, which causes a swarm of cockroaches to mutate and grow in size. Now plagued by dangerous cockroaches, the mayor of the town contacts an eccentric bug exterminator George S. Merlin to get rid of the bugs.
The rest of the film follows the bugs as they reproduce and grow in numbers creating a large family of 10 feet long cockroaches to roam around the town, killing people while George uses his over-the-top techniques to control them and kill them. Bug Buster stars Randy Quaid, Brenda Epperson, Doumani, Katherine Heigl, and others.
- Directed by: Lorenzo Doumani
- IMDb rating: 3.8
- Where to watch: Roku, Prime Video
25. Deadly Spawn (1983)
The Deadly Spawn is a science fiction horror film about two campers who witness a meteor crash near them, and as they go to investigate the meteor, they are eaten by a mysterious creature. There was a house near the crash site where the alien creature decided to stay.
The house owner, Sam and Barb, and their kids, Pete and Charles, are set to venture out into town when a rainstorm comes. Sam goes to the basement to make sure that the house isn’t flooding and is eaten by the creature. Barn goes down to make sure her husband is alright and gets eaten by the monster creature too.
The rest of the film follows the creature as it spreads out throughout the town with its slug-like companions and starts eating people. Deadly Spawn stars Charles George, Hilderbrandt, Tom Defranco, Richard Lee Porter, and others.
- Directed by: Douglas Mckeown
- IMDb rating: 5.9
- Where to watch: Spectrum TV
26. Food of the Gods (1976)
Food of the Gods is a science fiction thriller film about Mr. and Mrs. Skinner as they find a substance on the floor one day and feed it to their chickens, thinking that it’s a gift from god. The chickens, rats, and any other bugs that consumed the substance grew in size.
A rat kills Mr. Skinner after his car breaks down in the middle of a forest. Morgan, who is a football player, and his friends have come to the island on a hunting trip. Morgan burns a nest of giant wasps after it stings one of his friends, who then dies.
The rest of the film follows Morgan and some other people as they get stuck at the skinner farm while trying to hide from a group of giant rats and how they escape them. Food of the Gods stars Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, John Cypher, and others.
- Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
- IMDb rating: 4.5
- Where to watch: Fubo TV, Hoopla
27. Slugs (1988)
Slugs is an American/Spanish horror film about a town it is plagued by black slugs. Mike Brady, who is a health inspector, finds out that the people of his town are dying mysteriously, but after he puts forward his theory of deadly slugs, nobody believes him. When dead bodies start piling up, experts start taking his story into account and start an investigation to find out where the slugs came from and how the people can be saved from them.
The rest of the film follows Mike as he helps the experts in finding information about the slugs while trying to find a way to protect the people from being killed. Slugs stars Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Alicia Moro, Philip MacHale, and others.
- Directed by: Juan Piquer Simon
- IMDb rating: 5.3
- Where to watch: Netflix, Disney Plus
28. Mongolian Death Worm (2010)
Mongolian Death Worms is a horror film about an American corporation they are trying to find shale oil, but their operations get delayed due to a mechanical failure. It is later revealed that their drilling machines have disturbed a group of Mongolian death worms, which are very dangerous and produce electromagnetic fields that interfere with equipment. The death worms emerge from their underground tunnels and start killing people.
Meanwhile, in a Mongolian village, people are falling sick because the water has been infected with worms. A group of medical workers arrives in the village to try to cure people and protect others from getting infected. Mongolian Death Worm stars Victoria Pratt, Sean Patrick Flanery, George Cheung, and others.
- Directed by: Steven R. Monroe
- IMDb rating: 3.4
- Where to watch: Tubi TV
29. Anaconda (1997)
Anaconda is an adventure horror film that follows the events that take place on the Amazon River. A film crew shooting a documentary about Shirishamas finds a man named Paul Serone who tells them that he can help them with their documentary. He doesn’t get along with a lot of members of the crew and often quarrels with the anthropologist, professor Steven Cale.
Steven gets stung by a wasp, and Paul saves him before taking over their boat and reveals his true motive behind helping them, which was capturing a giant green anaconda that killed his friend Mateo while they were hunting.
The rest of the film follows the crew’s adventure as they help Palu in capturing the anaconda, which strikes back and kills several of the crew members. Anaconda stars Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, and others.
- Directed by: Luis Llosa
- IMDb rating: 4.8
- Where to watch: Vudu, Apple TV
30. Star Runners (2009)
Star Runners is a science fiction film about Tycho Johns and Lei Chen as they transfer a girl under the orders of Colonel Bishop, but their ship gets attacked by terrorists causing them to crash land on an unknown planet. They take shelter in an old military facility and see various mutated bugs there.
They learn that the girl has psychic powers after she picks up a girl and has a vision of the person who held the gun before her. Lei finds out that due to a solar storm, the bugs decide to take cover under the solar flare shields, which protect them from being burnt.
The rest of the film follows Tycho and Lei as they find out more secret powers of the mysterious girl while they try to defeat the Bugs who have attacked them and killed a few of them. Star Runners stars Connor Trinneer, James Kyson Lee, Toni Trucks, Aja Evans, Michael Kulkin, and others.
- Directed by: Mat King
- IMDb rating: 4.2
- Where to watch: Roku
31. Blue Monkey (1987)
Blue Monkey is a Canadian Horror film about a woman named Marwellia Harbison who owns a greenhouse. Fred Adams, who is a handyman, noticed that one of her plants which she got from a newly formed volcanic island, was drooping. Marwellia doesn’t know the reason behind the plant’s condition.
Fred hurts his finger and says he felt like a thorn pricked his finger, but the plant had no thorns. He faints after a little while and is rushed to the hospital, where he vomits an insect’s pupa and seems okay after that. While keeping both Fred and the pupa under observation, Dr. Rachel Carson tends to other patients.
The rest of the film follows Fred as he has a cardiac arrest which leads to his chest bursting while the insect is set free by some children, which ends up killing a few people. Blue Monkey stars Steve Railsback, Don Lake, Gwynyth Walsh, Sandy Webster, and others.
- Directed by: William Fruet
- IMDb rating: 4.8
- Where to watch: Vudu, Netflix, Roku
32. The Naked Jungle (1954)
The Naked Jungle is an adventure film about Joanna, who is a widow and has just gotten married to a cocoa plantation owner named Christopher Leiningen. The marriage had been arranged by Christopher’s brother, who lives in New Orleans. Christopher wishes for a virgin, but instead, she gets married to a widow, which is why he treats her coldly when she arrives from New Orleans.
Joanna tries to strike a friendship between them but fails miserably when Christopher doesn’t reciprocate her friendship and plans on sending her back to New Orleans. As Christopher and Joanna wait for the boat that’s going to take her back to the United States, Christopher learns about the army of ants that are going to arrive in their town soon, and both of them decide to stay together and fight back.
The rest of the film follows Joanna and Christopher as they bond together while preparing to fight deadly ants that have taken the world by storm. The Naked Jungle stars Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, and others.
- Directed by: Byron Haskin
- IMDb rating: 6.7
- Where to watch: Vudu, Apple TV
33. Phenomena (1985)
Phenomena is a supernatural horror film about Jennifer Corvino, who is the daughter of a famous American actor, as she arrives at the Swiss Richard Wagner academy for girls chaperoned by Frau Bruckner.
On her first night in the school, Jennifer sleepwalks and witnesses a student being murdered, which wakes her up. She runs into the forest, where she meets a chimpanzee Inga who leads her to her owner and an entomologist John McGregor.
John finds out that Jennifer has a telepathic link with the insects and sends her back to her school. The next day, Jennifer’s roommate Sophie gets murdered by someone assuming that she is Jennifer since she wore the same sweater that Jennifer had worn the previous night while witnessing the murder of the student.
The rest of the film follows John as he tries to use Jennifer’s telepathic power to find out who is killing the young girls but ends up getting himself killed. Phenomena stars Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau, and others.
- Directed by: Dario Argento
- IMDb rating: 6.7
- Where to watch: Vudu, Roku, Apple TV
34. Ants! (1977)
Ants! is a science fiction horror film about Ethel Adams, who is the owner of the Lakewood Hotel, and her daughter Valerie as they are visited by real estate magnate Anthony Fleming and his partner/lover Gloria who wants to turn the hotel into a casino.
Valerie’s boyfriend and foreman, Mike Carr, finds the body of two men buried in the sand. They discover that the cause of their death is venomous ants, and soon the ants start to attack more people of Lakewood, including the cook.
The rest of the film follows the Lakewood people as they try to kill the ants but later discover that the ants are immune to all pesticides and water while trying to steer clear of the ant’s way. Ants! Stars Robert Foxworth, Lynda Day George, Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke, and others.
- Directed by: Robert Scheerer
- IMDb rating: 4.9
- Where to watch: YouTube
35. The Wasp Woman (1959)
The Wasp Woman is a science fiction horror film about a woman named Janice Starlin, who is the owner of a large cosmetics company. She suffers from public backlash after they get angry at her for her false claims.
Dr. Eric Zinthrop is a scientist who was sacked from his job for experimenting on wasps but has now found an enzyme in the queen wasps’ jelly that can reverse the aging process. He joins hands with Janice, who funds his research and applies the serum he created by him.
The rest of the film follows Janice as she uses too much of the serum because of it is working slowly in the absence of Eric, who forgot to tell her that the wasps were becoming too aggressive and about the consequences of using the serum too much. Eric goes missing after an accident, and Janice starts to turn into a wasp after her overdose on the serum. The Wasp Woman stars Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris, and others.
- Directed by: Roger Corman
- IMDb rating: 4.8
- Where to watch: Prime Video
36. Mosquito (1994)
Mosquito is a science fiction horror movie that follows the story of two lovers, Megan and Ray, who are driving to the summer camp in a park and accidentally hit something, which turns out to be a giant mosquito.
The same night, a spacecraft crash-landed in that park, killing the extraterrestrial driving the spacecraft. Several mosquitos suck the blood of the alien, causing them to increase in size. The mosquito stars kill people visiting the park.
Two Park rangers who were fishing were also caught and killed by the mosquitoes. The next morning, Ray and Megan arrive in the park with a meteorologist named Parks, who is searching for a meteor that had crash-landed on Earth the previous night and found the bodies of the park rangers and other people visiting the park.
The rest of the film follows Parks, Ray, Megan, and others as they try to escape the park as a swarm of giant killer mosquitoes tries to kill them repeatedly. Mosquito stars Gunnar Hansen, Ron Asheton, Josh Becker, Steve Dixon, and others.
- Directed by: Gary Jones
- IMDb rating: 4.4
- Where to watch: Roku, Spectrum TV
37. Beginning of the End (1957)
The Beginning of the end is a science fiction film about photojournalist Audrey Aimes as she comes across a town that has been destroyed, and the 150 people who lived there have died. After visiting the town’s fields, she comes to know that they are wrecked too.
She goes to the nearby United States Department of Agriculture to find out more about the town and meets Dr. Ed Wainwright, who is a scientist conducting experiments on fruits and vegetables to make them grow in size and erase the world’s hunger.
He tells her that locusts have eaten all the radioactive grains and have grown as big as a bus. Ed and Audrey start tracking down a series of mysterious events happening around town and find the giant locust eating humans after the crops come to an end.
The rest of the film follows Ed and Audrey as they try to find a way to kill the giant locust and save the surviving humans. Beginning of the End stars Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Than Wyenn, and others.
- Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
- IMDb rating: 3.9
- Where to watch: Pluto TV
38. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
The Strange World of Planet X is a science fiction horror movie that follows the story of a physicist Dr. Laird who is conducting dangerous experiments related to magnetic fields accompanied by Gilbert Graham. An accident occurs, which injures Gilbert, so Dr. Laird requests the Military of Defense for a replacement.
They send Brigadier Cartwright and a computer expert Michele Dupont to investigate. Michele fixes Laird’s power problem, thus making the experiment flawless, which results in Cartwright informing the authorities that they should make Laird’s project a top priority.
As more people start working on the project to make it a success, repercussions of using the magnetic fields start showing around town. The animals and insects start mutating and growing in size, and a threat looms over the protective layer of the Earth, which protects it from the sun’s harmful rays.
The rest of the movie follows a series of chaotic event that occurs after Laird refuses to stop his experiment, and the insects start attacking people, killing several of them. The Strange World of Planet X stars Forrest Tucker, Martin Benson, Gaby Andre, and others.
- Directed by: Gilbert Gunn
- IMDb rating: 4.8
- Where to watch: Prime Video
39. Arachnid (2001)
Arachnid is a Spanish horror film about Joli Mercer, a test plane pilot who comes across a spaceship and chases it, but due to a malfunction in his plane, he lands on a nearby island where he is killed by a giant spider.
Ten months later, Loren Mercer, Joli’s sister, pilots a plane and leads Dr. Samuel Leon and his assistant Susana Gabriel on a medical expedition, and they land on the same island that Joel’s brother had landed on.
Loren, Samuel, Susana, and their team venture into the village to find it deserted and ruined. They soon find out that the island is filled with mutated insects and bugs that have grown in size, which attack them, and soon their team members start to die one by one.
Loren tries to find her brother but soon discovers that he has been killed by a giant spider, and the rest of the film follows the others as they try to escape from the deadly insects and flee from the island, which is harder than they thought. Arachnid stars Chris Potter, Jose Sancho, Alex Reid, Neus Asensi, and others.
- Directed by: Jack Sholder
- IMDb rating: 3.9
- Where to watch: Tubi TV, Roku
40. Silent Predators (1999)
Silent Predators is an American horror film that follows the story of a town named San Vicente as it is attacked by a new species of rattlesnakes who escaped into the wild 20 years ago after the truck carrying them had crashed. The snakes start killing people in the town, and local fire chief Vic Rondelli is aware of the government of the city about the deadly snakes and the deaths caused by them.
The rest of the film follows Vic as he tries to convince the government to evacuate everyone from the town, while Max Farrington, who is a land developer, opposes the idea because he wants to finish his work. Silent Predators stars Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, David Spielberg, Patty McCormack, and others.
- Directed by: Noel Nosseck
- IMDb rating: 4.3
- Where to watch: Plex, Vudu
41. The Bone Snatcher (2003)
The Bone Snatcher is a British Canadian horror film starring Rachel Shelley, Scott Bairstow, Adrienne Pearce, and others. The film follows the story of a group of people that had gone to a South African mine during a diamond expedition.
The researchers never made it back, and so Dr. Zack Straker and a search team are sent to find the missing group. Zack is unable to find the group of missing researchers but soon finds their bones in the desert, which leads them to believe that a best is eating people alive in the desert.
The rest of the film follows Zack as he finds out that a swarm of ants-like creatures are eating humans and are controlled by a queen ant, so he tries to find their colony and destroy them but loses most of his team during the process.
- Directed by: Jason Wulfsohn
- IMDb rating: 4.4
- Where to watch: Prime Video, Vudu
42. Arachnophobia (1990)
Arachnophobia is a comedy horror film about Ross Jennings, who is a physicist and suffers from arachnophobia which is a phobia of spiders and scorpions. As he moves to Canaima from San Francisco along with his family after he learns that the town doctor is retiring. Jerry Manley, who used to be a nature photographer, had been bitten by a spider and died, after which his body was sent to his hometown Canaima in a coffin.
The coffin also had the spider who had bitten him, which mates with a local spider and creates lots of offspring that go around town biting and killing people. Soon, Ross learns of the spiders and takes help from an entomologist who sends his assistant, Chris, to Canaima to investigate.
The rest of the film follows Ross, Chris, and several other people as they try to find the one spider who is creating these crossbreeds of spiders by finding their Nest and killing them before they can kill any more people with their lethal bite. Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman, Harkey Jane Kozak, and others.
- Directed by: Frank Marshall
- IMDb rating: 6.5
- Where to watch: Roku, Vudu, Redbox, Apple TV
43. Dragon Wasps (2012)
Dragon Wasps is a science fiction horror film about Gina Humphries as she decides to go on an expedition along with her friend Rhonda to look for her father, who had gotten lost in the jungles of Belize.
Gina convinces John Hammond, who was a part of the military, to help them find her father after she gets caught in the jungles while driving her jeep. Soon, the military and both entomologists Gina and Rhonda find out that the jungle is filled with mutated, fire-spitting, bloodthirsty wasps who are killing humans.
The rest of the film follows Gina and Rhonda as they search for Dr. Humphries while also becoming a part of a guerilla war between the military and the wasp. Will Gina find her father and make it out alive in the jungle? Dragon Wasps stars Corin Nemec, Dominika Juillet, Nikolette Noel, Gildon Roland, and others.
- Directed by: Joe Knee
- IMDb rating: 3.1
- Where to watch: Tubi TV
44. Return of the Fly (1959)
Return of the Fly is a science fiction horror film that follows the story of Phillipe Delambre as he tries to fix his father’s transportation machine but runs out of funds. He asks his uncle Francois to fund his experiment, but he declines, so Phillipe blackmails him by saying that he will sell his half of Delambre Frere, which gets Francois to agree, and he funds Phillipe’s experiment.
Phillipe successfully fixes the teleportation device, which stores a certain thing or animal before materializing through the transporter. Alan Hinds, whom Phillipe had hired to help with his experiment, turns out to be a spy named Ronald Holmes who sells the information about the transportation device to a cohort Max.
The rest of the film follows a struggle between Ronald and Phillipe as he finds out about Ronald’s betrayal and tries to stop him from selling his machine’s paper to Max, which results in Phillipe turning into a fly and killing Max and Ronald. Return of the Fly stars Vincent Prince, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, and others.
- Directed by: Edward Bernds
- IMDb rating: 5.7
- Where to watch: Vudu, Roku
45. The Thaw (2009)
The Thaw is a science fiction horror film that shows a video documentary of Dr. David Kruipen, who was a research scientist and a virus that had killed 400 people while infecting 10,000 people. This is followed by a flashback to when David found the remains of a mammoth and tranquilized a polar bear.
David transports the polar bear to his research station and tries to convince his daughter to come down to the station. Several other people join his research team and come to the station. David’s research team starts to feel sick and later starts to die one by one.
The rest of the film follows Jennifer and the research team as they come across several deadly bugs that can kill humans with their bites and as they try to escape them. The Thaw stars Val Kilmer, Martha MacIssac, Kyle Schmid, Steph Song, and others.
- Directed by: Mark A. Lewis
- IMDb rating: 5.2
- Where to watch: Prime Video, Roku
46. The Savage Bees (1976)
The Savage Bees is a horror television film that follows the story of a town in New Orleans as they are preparing to celebrate their annual Mardi Gras festival and find out that a swarm of deadly African bees is headed their way.
A bee expert named Dr. Jeff Rurand is called to consult on this, and he suggests stopping the festival, but the people disagree since they don’t want to cancel the festival. When the bees finally arrive, they attack a young girl in a red dress.
Jeff realizes that the bees attack those people who are wearing red color and making loud noises, and thus uses this information to his benefit and kills the bees. The Savage Bees stars Ben Johnson, Michael Parks, Paul Hecht, Gretchen Corbett, Bruce French, and others.
- Directed by: Guerdon Trueblood
- IMDb rating: 5.1
- Where to watch: Prime Video
47. The Birds (1963)
The Birds is a horror thriller film about Melanie Daniels as she goes to a pet store and comes across Mitch Brenner, who recognizes her and plays a prank on her by acting to mistake her for one of the store employees and asking her questions about birds but when she is unable to answer, he laughs and reveals that he was joking.
Melanie buys lovebirds for Mitch because she finds him attractive and goes to his house in Bodega Bay to give him the birds. Upon arriving, she is told that he went to his family’s farm for the weekend. She books a boat and goes to his family’s farm while Mitch waits on the dock to meet her, but Melanie gets attacked by a gull of birds and is injured.
The rest of the film follows Melanie as she is constantly attacked by birds, along with all the people of the town who are being attacked and killed by birds, and Mitch tries to keep his family and Melanie safe from the birds. The Birds stars Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, and others.
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
- IMDb rating: 7.6
- Where to watch: Prime Video, Roku
48. Night of the Creeps (1986)
Night of the Creeps is a science fiction horror film that tells the story of a college man as he takes his date to a parking spot where they witness a shooting star and decide to investigate it.
The shooting star turns out to be a canister that opens, and a slug-like creature escapes it, which goes into the mouth of the college guy. On the same night, a mental criminal had also escaped from prison with an axe in hand and also reached the spot where the shooting star had fallen, which was, in reality, a canister of an extraterrestrial.
Twenty-seven years later, Chris Romero joins a sorority to impress a girl named Cynthia, where he is tasked to steal a cadaver from the university’s medical center. While searching for the cadaver, Chris comes across a corpse that was kept in the secret room, but when he takes a closer look, the corpse moves. The corpse was of the same boy who had taken his lover to the parking lot.
The rest of the film follows several dead bodies becoming alive after several slug-like creatures invade the corpses and cause chaos in the city and the school. Night of the Creeps stars Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, and others.
- Directed by: Fred Dekker
- IMDb rating: 6.7
- Where to watch: Vudu, Apple TV
49. Sssssss (1973)
Sssssss is a horror film about David Blake, who is a college student. As he becomes a herpetologist, Dr. Carl Stoner’s assistant. Carl injects David with an injection that he claims will protect him from snakes.
David’s skin starts to peel, and he goes into a coma for a few days. After he wakes up, he begins to lose weight and voices his concerns to Carl, who tells him that these are side effects of the venom and keeps injecting David with it.
The rest of the film follows David as he fully transforms into a snake and Carl as he attempts to kill Dr. Daniels, who had come to his lab for inspection and ends up seeing David’s current state. Sssssss stars Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Tim O’Connor, and others.
- Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
- IMDb rating: 5.4
- Where to watch: Vudu
50. Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Kingdom of the Spiders is a science fiction horror film about Dr. Robert Hansen, as he is called by a farmer, Walter Colby, who claims that his calf is sick. Hansen examines the calf but is unable to find the reason for its sickness, after which it dies. Hansen sends a blood sample of the calf to a university lab that sends Diane Ashley, an arachnologist, with the reports.
Ashley tells Hansen that the calf died due to a high dose of venom. Soon, Colby’s dog also dies due to venom, after which Colby tells Robert and Ashley that there is a spider hill in the back of his farmland. After inspection, Robert finds a hill of tarantulas that are killing animals for survival and decides to burn their hill.
The rest of the film follows Robert and Ashley as they discover that the spiders have escaped and are now killing people around town, starting with Colby, who was found covered in spider webs. Kingdom of the Spiders stars William Shatner, Woody Strode, Tiffany Bolling, Altovise Davis, and others.
- Directed by: John “Bud” Cardos
- IMDb rating: 5.7
- Where to watch: Prime Video, Roku
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