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The Best Horror Movies About Killer Insects
List Rules
Spiders aren't insects! They have their own list, which is linked below in the description.
Horror movies about insects are not really a thing anymore, but there are plenty of decent scary insect movies to fall back on if you're craving a film about killer bugs. This list ranks the best killer insect and bug movies, voted on by horror fans like you. There are films like The Fly about a man who is spliced with an insect, while other scary bug movies like The Swarm or Mimic see deadly insects who are trying to kill and eat their victims.
If it's horror movies about ants you are looking for, check out Them! or Empire of the Ants, two classic films that feature killer ants. Other insect horror movies include The Deadly Mantis, Black Swarm, and The Wasp Woman.
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- When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a ...more
- While investigating a series of mysterious deaths, Sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) finds a young girl (Sandy Descher) who is unable to speak. As Peterson joins forces with FBI agent Robert ...more
- When a cockroach-spread plague threatens to decimate the child population of New York City, evolutionary biologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) and her research associates rig up a species of "Judas"Â ...more
- When scientist Andre Delambre (Al Hedison) tests his matter transporter on himself, an errant housefly makes its way into the transportation chamber, and things go horribly wrong. As a result, ...more
- Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster ...more
- Tarantula is a 1955 American science fiction film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, and starring John Agar, Mara Corday and Leo G. Carroll. The ...more
- After a volcano erupts south of the border, people and animals begin inexplicably dying. Earth scientists Hank (Richard Denning) and Arturo (Carlos Rivas) travel to the small town of San Lorenzo, ...more
- The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig ...more
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Phenomena
- 10Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists (Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy) and a woman (Lynne Frederick).
- Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson), the CEO of a research laboratory, acts as the self-appointed guardian of orphan Martin Brundle, whose father had been a researcher at the lab. Though Martin is scarcely ...more
- Moved by lonely letters written to her brother by cocoa plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), New Orleans widow Joanna (Eleanor Parker) agrees to marry Christopher by proxy. Upon ...more
- 13Ticks is a 1993 direct-to-video horror film starring Peter Scolari, Seth Green, Rosalind Allen, Ami Dolenz, Alfonso Ribeiro, and Clint Howard.
- 14Though well-meaning scientists thought they'd destroyed them all, a single gigantic, murderous "Judas Breed" cockroach, which is capable of taking on the shape of a human, is still on the loose. When ...more
- Killer Bees is a 1974 made for TV horror movie featuring Gloria Swanson that originally aired on ABC on February 26, 1974. The film, which was directed by Curtis Harrington, had a very small cast, ...more
- The Wasp Woman is a science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman which was completed in 1959. To pad out the running time when the film was released to television two years later, a new ...more
- Con artist Marilyn Fryser (Joan Collins) has a steady and profitable racket. Along with an unscrupulous ship captain (Robert Lansing), she takes gullible investors on a cruise of the Everglades and ...more
- It Happened at Lakewood Manor is a 1977 television film. The cast includes Lynda Day George, Suzanne Somers, Myrna Loy, Brian Dennehy and Bernie Casey.
- 19The Bees is a 1978 horror film about South American bees imported to the USA, where they wreak havoc.
- Marvin (Karl Geary), who is hypersensitive to germs, stays inside taking photos of his neighbors, including a suspicious figure he dubs "The Garbageman" (Lance Henriksen) and a pretty woman named ...more
- Follows Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas as she works toward the 2016 Olympic Games.
- An exterminator (Sebastien Roberts), a sheriff (Sarah Allen) and an entomologist battle deadly, bio-engineered wasps that turn their victims into drones.
- Monster from Green Hell is a 1957 science-fiction B movie shown as a double-feature to the 1957 film The Brain from Planet Arous. It is also seen as a clone of Them!.
- After getting fired from his job for slacking off, hapless paper pusher Cooper (Christopher Marquette) is attacked by a gigantic insect. Upon awakening, he discovers that the city is under attack by ...more
- The Strange World of Planet X is a British science fiction horror film, and a cautionary tale about science. It was also known as Cosmic Monsters, The Crawling Terror, The Cosmic Monster, and The ...more
