Movies like Prey (1977)
The best movies like Prey (1977) are The Alien Factor (1978), Progeny (1998) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). If Prey hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedHorror Express (1972)6.3/10 from 354 votes
- NewestBooks of Blood (2020)Released 2020
The Alien Factor (1978)
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small backwoods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk start turning up mutilated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Progeny (1998)
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisInvasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisWithout Warning (1980)
When a mountain town is besieged by aliens, stranded teens Sandy and Greg team up with a local hunter as a paranoid war vet becomes convinced they're the enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisContamination (1980)
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLifeforce (1985)
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Big Heat (1967)
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMetamorphosis: The Alien Factor (1990)
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisXtro (1982)
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Children (1980)
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror Express (1972)
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead Kids (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Lives Again (1978)
Maternity wards echo with the patter of tiny claws as more murderous baby-faced monsters are born. But rather than kill their monstrous offspring during delivery, cursed parents flee to secret incubation hideouts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDie, Monster, Die! (1965)
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMutilations (1986)
A high school science teacher takes his students on a field trip to see a UFO sighting. What they didn't expect, was that it was a flying saucer that crashed a farm house, and an alien predator feeds on humans, killing each student one by one!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Forbidden World (1982)
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Creeping Flesh (1973)
A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unleashing a malevolent entity on the scientist's family and friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Blood Beast Terror (1968)
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Night Caller (1965)
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Cold Night's Death (1973)
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Unearthly Stranger (1963)
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
The Terror Within (1989)
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists discover creatures mutated by the plague. Now they prepare to do battle against their worst fear: The Terror Within.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Kindred (1987)
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mutations (1974)
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Premonition (1976)
When a deranged woman and her carny boyfriend plot to abduct her biological daughter from the girl's foster parents, the foster mother is plagued by premonitions and psychic visions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
The Boogens (1981)
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootlegging tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrange Invaders (1983)
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBooks of Blood (2020)
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Light (2019)
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Prey?
The closest matches to Prey are The Alien Factor (1978), Progeny (1998) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Prey?
People who watched Prey most often go on to The Alien Factor (1978), Progeny (1998) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973).
What is the highest-rated movie like Prey?
Horror Express (1972), rated 6.3/10 by 354 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Prey?
Books of Blood (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Prey?
Yes: The Alien Factor (1978), Progeny (1998) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973).
How are movies similar to Prey chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Prey, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.