Horror: … Insects/Arachnids …
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1. Squirm (1976)
PG | 92 min | Horror
A storm causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.
Director: Jeff Lieberman | Stars: Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow, Jean Sullivan
Votes: 6,462
2. Arachnophobia (1990)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a small California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify the young doctor newly arrived in town with his family.
Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak
Votes: 75,823 | Gross: $53.21M
3. Skeeter (1993)
R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!
Director: Clark Brandon | Stars: Tracy Griffith, Jim Youngs, Charles Napier, Jay Robinson
Votes: 1,066
4. Webs (2003 TV Movie)
R | 84 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
An electrical crew stumbles into a parallel universe dominated by a mutated spider.
Director: David Wu | Stars: Richard Grieco, Kate Greenhouse, Colin Fox, Richard Yearwood
Votes: 754
5. Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters, Bert Remsen
Votes: 951
6. Arachnia (2003 Video)
R | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a small research plane carrying a group of science students and their professor crash-lands in the middle of nowhere, the survivors go to a nearby farmhouse to look for help but soon find themselves besieged by giant mutant spiders.
Director: Brett Piper | Stars: Rob Monkiewicz, Irene Joseph, David Bunce, Bevin McGraw
Votes: 1,085
7. Bug (2006)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins
Votes: 37,817 | Gross: $7.01M
8. Mimic (1997)
R | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 55,683 | Gross: $25.48M
9.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Sick Girl
(2006)
TV-MA | 56 min | Horror
A story about an evil bug with the ability to change people's behavior, a commentary on the dangers of moving into a relationship too quickly.
Director: Lucky McKee | Stars: Mike McKee, Erin Brown, Angela Bettis, Jesse Hlubik
Votes: 3,978
10. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 201,986 | Gross: $40.46M
11. Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)
R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After the events of Spiders (2000), a scientist conducts genetic tests, and a couple becomes the perfect host. Now, the hunt is on, as an army of arachnids is after the succulent human flesh. Who can stop the spiders' feeding frenzy?
Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn, Richard Moll
Votes: 1,741
12. Spiders (2000)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Lana Parrilla, Josh Green, Oliver Macready, Nick Swarts
Votes: 3,206
13. Arachnid (2001)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A scientific expedition investigating the outbreak of an unknown viral epidemic on an island in the south Pacific battles with a giant alien spider in the jungle.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Chris Potter, Alex Reid, José Sancho, Neus Asensi
Votes: 3,155
14. Spiders (2013)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species of venomous spiders is discovered, and soon they mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the city.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: William Hope, Shelly Varod, Brian Hankey, Jesse Steele
Votes: 4,746
15. Big Ass Spider! (2013)
PG-13 | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, it is up to a team of scientists and one clever exterminator to kill the creature before the city is destroyed.
Director: Mike Mendez | Stars: Greg Grunberg, Lin Shaye, Ruben Pla, Alexis Kendra
Votes: 7,740
16. Ice Spiders (2007 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A top-secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa Williams, Thomas Calabro, David Millbern
Votes: 3,009
17. Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Venomous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
Director: Ellory Elkayem | Stars: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson
Votes: 60,234 | Gross: $17.32M
18. Bugs (2003 TV Movie)
R | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An entomologist accompanies a team of commandos to prevent prehistoric insects from escaping from a subway system.
Director: Joseph Conti | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Angie Everhart, R.H. Thomson, Karl Pruner
Votes: 867
19. They Nest (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
A Maine island becomes infested with lethal insects that root inside their victims, while a local doctor battles the bugs and incorrigible locals that don't believe him.
Director: Ellory Elkayem | Stars: Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage, Kristen Dalton
Votes: 2,283
20. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph
Votes: 4,102
21. The Unborn (2009)
PG-13 | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Director: David S. Goyer | Stars: Odette Annable, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good
Votes: 53,337 | Gross: $42.67M
22. Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Horror
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father's death.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn
Votes: 7,813
23. Prince of Darkness (1987)
R | 102 min | Horror
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Votes: 49,981 | Gross: $14.18M
24. The Collection (II) (2012)
R | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as "The Collector" is then forced to help rescue an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped lair.
Director: Marcus Dunstan | Stars: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald, Randall Archer
Votes: 54,088 | Gross: $12.84M
25. Silent Hill (2006)
R | 125 min | Horror, Mystery
A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.
Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 244,085 | Gross: $46.98M
26. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,063
27. Bleed (I) (2016)
TV-MA | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
It seemed perfect - a new house, a new marriage, a child soon to be born. But when Sarah and Matt invite their friends to celebrate, the situation turns deadly as they enter a burned-out prison on a ghost hunt.
Director: Tripp Rhame | Stars: Chelsey Crisp, Riley Smith, Michael Steger, Lyndon Smith
Votes: 1,733
28. Creeping Crawling (2012)
Not Rated | 120 min | Horror
An eccentric entomologist tells three dark tales about the creeping crawling insects that burrow through the walls of homes, eat through our intestines, and for some of us, drive us slowly insane.
Directors: Jon Russell Cring, Tracy Nichole Cring | Stars: Raine Brown, Kevin Craig West, Anna Shields, Laura LaFrate
Votes: 113
29. Rose Red (2002)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A college professor and a team of psychics investigate mysterious deaths and disappearances at an old abandoned mansion.
Stars: Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes
Votes: 27,031
30. Ritual (2002)
R | 99 min | Horror
An American nurse living in Jamaica grows suspicious of the nearby group of Voodoo practitioners.
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Lapaine, Kristen Wilson
Votes: 2,086
31.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Sandkings
(1995)
TV-PG | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Beau Bridges, Helen Shaver, Dylan Bridges, Kim Coates
Votes: 1,098
32. Itsy Bitsy (II) (2019)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Based on the centuries old poem, a family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider.
Director: Micah Gallo | Stars: Bruce Davison, Elizabeth Roberts, Denise Crosby, Arman Darbo
Votes: 5,358
33. Color Out of Space (2019)
Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight
Votes: 56,265
34. Spidarlings (2016)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.
Director: Selene Kapsaski | Stars: Sophia Disgrace, Rahel Kapsaski, Lee Mark Jones, Rusty Goffe
Votes: 240 | Gross: $0.00M
35. The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.
Director: Bryan Bertino | Stars: Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Lynn Andrews
Votes: 22,563
36. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 16,260
37. The Green Inferno (2013)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton
Votes: 49,430 | Gross: $7.19M
38. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, David Crowley
Votes: 22,372 | Gross: $0.02M
39. Blood Glacier (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Scientists working in the Austrian Alps discover that a glacier is leaking a liquid that appears to be affecting local wildlife.
Director: Marvin Kren | Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Santos, Hille Beseler
Votes: 4,121
40. Sinister 2 (2015)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan
Votes: 60,593 | Gross: $27.74M
41. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Campbell Scott
Votes: 140,083 | Gross: $75.07M
42. The Butterfly Room (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.
Director: Jonathan Zarantonello | Stars: Barbara Steele, Ray Wise, Erica Leerhsen, Heather Langenkamp
Votes: 2,548 | Gross: $0.00M
43. Black Sabbath (1963)
Approved | 97 min | Horror
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon
Votes: 13,914
44. The Perfection (2018)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Music
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Marie Maskell, Allison Williams, Christina Jastrzembska, Glynis Davies
Votes: 49,471
45. The Prey (1983)
R | 80 min | Horror
Three couples go on a camping trip in the woods of southern California during the summer, where a deformed man is stalking their camp.
Director: Edwin Brown | Stars: Debbie Thureson, Steve Bond, Lori Lethin, Robert Wald
Votes: 1,861
46. The Task (2011)
R | 94 min | Horror
A group of reality show contestants must survive the night in a haunted jail.
Director: Alex Orwell | Stars: Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire, Sean McConaghy, Adam Rayner
Votes: 3,706
47. Night of the Wolf (2014)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
When deadly beasts attack from the forest, it is up to a grizzled veteran to uncover what the residents of a secluded retirement community are hiding.
Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano | Stars: Nick Damici, Ethan Embry, Lance Guest, Erin Cummings
Votes: 8,491
48. Paranormal Activity (2007)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery
After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
Director: Oren Peli | Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong
Votes: 256,248 | Gross: $107.92M
49.
Into the Dark (2018–2021)
Episode:
Treehouse
(2019)
TV-MA | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Celebrity chef Peter Rake tries to escape a recent wave of negative tabloid exposure by moving away to his family's vacation estate in the woods, but the ghosts of his past are everywhere and debts will be settled.
Director: James Roday Rodriguez | Stars: Stephanie Beatriz, Nancy Linehan Charles, Sophia Del Pizzo, Julianna Guill
Votes: 2,506
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