Movies like Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)
The best movies like Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) are Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015), Piranha 3D (2010) and Stung (2015). If Tremors: Shrieker Island hooked you with its comedy and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTremors (1990)7.0/10 from 3,783 votes
- NewestHungry (2026)Released 2026
- Same seriesTremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)Tremors
Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
When Gummer is hired to capture a deadly creature terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick, Travis Welker, engage in another battle of survival against the fiercely aggressive Graboids.
Why it matches: Same series: Tremors · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPiranha 3D (2010)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStung (2015)
A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEight Legged Freaks (2002)
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisArachnophobia (1990)
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil.
Why it matches: Same series: Tremors · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Survivalist Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, to find that the little town has been shaken up again by morphing, man-eating Graboids.
Why it matches: Same series: Tremors · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLake Placid (1999)
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community.
Why it matches: Same series: Tremors · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTremors (1990)
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.
Why it matches: Same series: Tremors · both comedy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018)
Burt Gummer and Travis Welker find themselves in a fight for survival after investigating deadly giant worm attacks in the Canadian arctic.
Why it matches: Same series: Tremors · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHungry (2026)
A group of holidaymakers must fight for their lives against a rampaging hippo on the loose after becoming lost in the Louisiana swamplands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMegalodon (2018)
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrawl (2019)
When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeep Blue Sea 3 (2020)
Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeep Blue Sea (1999)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSting (2024)
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGodzilla (1998)
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisRampage (2018)
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlligator (1980)
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeep Rising (1998)
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrange Nature (2018)
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAttack the Block (2011)
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsycho Goreman (2020)
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlither (2006)
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFreaks of Nature (2015)
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInfestation (2009)
After being stung by a giant insect, Cooper learns that these bugs are attacking the whole city. He joins forces with the survivors, in order to find a way to counter-attack.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIck (2025)
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tremors: Shrieker Island?
The closest matches to Tremors: Shrieker Island are Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015), Piranha 3D (2010) and Stung (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tremors: Shrieker Island?
People who watched Tremors: Shrieker Island most often go on to Piranha 3D (2010), Stung (2015) and Eight Legged Freaks (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Tremors: Shrieker Island?
Tremors (1990), rated 7.0/10 by 3,783 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tremors: Shrieker Island?
Hungry (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Tremors: Shrieker Island part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Tremors, which includes Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015), Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996), Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) and Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004).
Are there English movies like Tremors: Shrieker Island?
Yes: Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015), Piranha 3D (2010) and Stung (2015).
How are movies similar to Tremors: Shrieker Island chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tremors: Shrieker Island, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.