Movies Like The Beasts Are on the Streets

If you liked The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978), a thriller and tv movie movie directed by Peter R. Hunt, 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
Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and tv movie
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by…
2
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
3
Unseen (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller
Sam receives a call from Emily, a near blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. Can she survive using Sam as her eyes via video call?
4
The Night Stalker (1972)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…
5
The Shed (2019)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge…
6
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie and thriller
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
7
Silent Zone (2025)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty.
8
Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
9
Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
10
The Night Strangler (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movie and horror
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every…
11
Z (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller
A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
12
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and thriller
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
13
Dead of Night (1977)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she…
14
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar…
15
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and horror
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
16
Peeping Tom (1960)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and horror
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He…
17
The Dark Mirror (1946)
★ 7/10Also thriller and horror
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
18
Circle (2015)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two…
19
Alien Abduction (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
20
Big Legend (2018)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
An ex-soldier ventures into the Pacific Northwest to uncover the truth behind his fiance's disappearance.