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10 Best Movies Like Tarantula

If you loved Tarantula, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Phase IV

Phase IV

1974★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tarantula for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman....

#2
The Car

The Car

1977★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tarantula for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sherif...

#3
Island of Lost Souls

Island of Lost Souls

1932★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tarantula for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations....

#4
The Asphyx

The Asphyx

1972★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tarantula for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curiou...

#5
It Came from Outer Space

It Came from Outer Space

1953★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tarantula for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scor...

#6
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1956★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tarantula for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates....

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