Movies Like Day of the Cicada

If you liked Day of the Cicada, a science fiction and horror movie directed by David W. Bailey, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Phase IV (1974)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
2
The Return (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
3
The Bay (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and science fiction
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
4
Books of Blood (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
5
Dark Light (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
6
This Island Earth (1955)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and horror
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
7
Return of the Fly (1959)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have…
8
The Hidden (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and horror
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
9
Osiris (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and horror
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
10
Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
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.
11
Them! (1954)
★ 6.8/10Also 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…
12
Don't Kill It (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also horror
Demon hunter Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.
13
Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…
14
The Fly (1986)
★ 7.4/10Also horror and science fiction
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…
15
The Crazies (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also horror
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
16
Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
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.
17
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
18
Blood and Snow (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
19
Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
20
Black Adam (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern…