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Movies that feel likeSharknado (2013)

A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.

If you loved Sharknado, the closest films we have are Deep Blue Sea (1999), Happy Death Day 2U (2019) and Shin Godzilla (2016). All three share Sharknado's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colony (2026).

πŸ… 78% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 3.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Anthony C. Ferrantekineticwittyplayfuldreadunsettlingcerebral
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If Sharknado hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) Β· Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)

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Deep Blue Sea
1999 Β· dir. Renny Harlin
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6action Β· horror Β· science fictionStarz

Common ground in both: creature and shark

The difference: Easier on the wit than Sharknado

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

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Happy Death Day 2U
2019 Β· dir. Christopher Landon
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.2comedy Β· horror Β· science fictionNetflix

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

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Shin Godzilla
2016 Β· dir. Shinji Higuchi
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

Kinetic and dread-soaked in the same breath

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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Piranha 3D
2010 Β· dir. Alexandre Aja
πŸ… 76%β˜… 5.5comedy Β· horrorParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: creature

Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 4.9comedy Β· horrorNetflix

Both lean on unease more than on comedy

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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Colony
2026 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.5horror Β· action Β· science fiction

Action built on ideas, twice over

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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Doom
2005 Β· dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
πŸ… 18%β˜… 5.2action Β· horror Β· science fictionStarz

Kinetic horror in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 Β· dir. Ben Wheatley
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

One thread runs through both: shark

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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#Alive
2020 Β· dir. Cho Il
β˜… 6.3action Β· horror Β· science fictionNetflix

Dread-soaked science fiction, and it commits to that

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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Re-Animator
1985 Β· dir. Stuart Gordon
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1science fiction Β· comedy Β· horror

Tv movie with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 1980s show

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007 Β· dir. Colin Strause
πŸ… 12%β˜… 4.6action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both lean on unease more than on action

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Sharknado does

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.

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Tremors
1990 Β· dir. Ron Underwood
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· horror Β· science fictionPeacock

Playful comedy in both cases

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.

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