If You Liked The Killer Shrews, Watch These Next
Finished The Killer Shrews (1959) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Killer Shrews, most of them are horror, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Island of Lost Souls(1932)
6.9Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
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2.Island of Terror(1966)
5.9HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
When a small island community becomes overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters that liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures, the community struggles to fight back.
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3.Tarantula(1955)
6.5Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle…
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4.Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)
7.5Science FictionHorrorThrillerAlso science fiction and horror
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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5.Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)
6.8AdventureHorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
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6.The Tingler(1959)
6.4HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
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 only when people scream when scared.
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7.Blood of the Vampire(1958)
5.8HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally…
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8.Monsters vs Aliens(2009)
6.3AnimationFamilyAdventureAlso science fiction
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group…
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9.Them!(1954)
6.8Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads…
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10.The Invisible Man(1933)
7.5HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
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11.It! The Terror from Beyond Space(1958)
5.8Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
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13.Gigantis, the Fire Monster(1959)
6.4ActionHorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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14.Fantastic Voyage(1966)
6.7Science FictionAdventureAlso science fiction
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
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15.Titan A.E.(2000)
6.6AnimationScience FictionAdventureAlso science fiction
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
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16.Quatermass 2(1957)
6.4Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in…
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17.Orca(1977)
6.2HorrorThrillerAlso horror
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will…
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18.Babylon 5: In the Beginning(1998)
7.1ActionScience FictionAdventureAlso science fiction
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
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19.Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956)
6.5Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
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'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
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20.The Damned(1962)
6.3HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
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