Movies like Food of the Gods II (1989)
The best movies like Food of the Gods II (1989) are Blue Monkey (1987), The Nest (1988) and Deadly Eyes (1982). If Food of the Gods II hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Fly (1986)7.5/10 from 5,261 votes
- NewestYear 10 (2024)Released 2024
- Same seriesThe Food of the Gods (1976)El alimento de los dioses
Blue Monkey (1987)
A man pricks his finger while tending to an exotic plant and is rushed to the ER, where he is diagnosed with a bacterial infection before a worm-like parasite emerges from his mouth. As the infection spreads throughout the ER, the parasite is exposed to a genetic growth stimulant, which causes it grow to monstrous proportions and terrorize the hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Nest (1988)
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeadly Eyes (1982)
Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!
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 thisThe Fly (1986)
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Brood (1979)
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPhantasm (1979)
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSplice (2010)
Elsa and Clive, two rebellious young scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators — only to have that bond turn deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Brain (1988)
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently – with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisOf Unknown Origin (1983)
A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom Beyond (1986)
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShivers (1975)
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beast Within (1982)
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisC.H.U.D. (1984)
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPiranha (1978)
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisParasite (1982)
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Stuff (1985)
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Food of the Gods (1976)
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Why it matches: Same series: El alimento de los dioses · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHumanoids from the Deep (1980)
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisHigh Desert Kill (1989)
Jim and Brad make their annual hunting trip to the desert, but this year everything is different: Their third partner, Paul, has died in an accident and they've taken his nephew, Ray, along in his place. When they arrive, though, there's not a single animal to be found, only a grizzled old-timer who joins them. When they meet two female campers, they all begin to behave aggressively, unable to resist their animal urges. The next morning the women have disappeared, but the strange moods and behaviors persist and change in ominous ways. Something has them in its grip and it has total control over them...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The 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 thisSwamp Thing (1982)
Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...even if it costs him his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt's Alive (1974)
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 thisNightmares (1983)
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisYear 10 (2024)
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWillard (1971)
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtinction (2015)
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeath Machine (1995)
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Food of the Gods II?
The closest matches to Food of the Gods II are Blue Monkey (1987), The Nest (1988) and Deadly Eyes (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Food of the Gods II?
People who watched Food of the Gods II most often go on to Blue Monkey (1987), The Nest (1988) and Deadly Eyes (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Food of the Gods II?
The Fly (1986), rated 7.5/10 by 5,261 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Food of the Gods II?
Year 10 (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Food of the Gods II part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to El alimento de los dioses, which includes The Food of the Gods (1976).
Are there English movies like Food of the Gods II?
Yes: Blue Monkey (1987), The Nest (1988) and Deadly Eyes (1982).
How are movies similar to Food of the Gods II chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Food of the Gods II, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.